Olivier Messiaen Quotes

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

Olivier Messiaen

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• Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Heart
  • Conservatism
  • Ecology

• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Heart
  • Doctor
  • Satisfied

• Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • World
  • Art
  • Soul

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Past

• If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Diet

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Body
  • Will
  • Back

• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Dream

• Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Body
  • Create
  • Strange

• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Care
  • Learn
  • Body

• It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet - with the soul-deep conviction that animals are not ours to eat, wear, exploit or experiment on.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Soul
  • City
  • Deep

• Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rock

• My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Heart
  • She
  • America

• I think, as you grow older, you have figure out the best way to utilize not only your body but your skill.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Best
  • Body
  • Grow

• Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!"

  

  William Lloyd Garrison
  • World
  • Men
  • Soul

• Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality.

  

  Armand Nassery
  • Reality
  • Dance
  • Comeback

• Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Winter
  • Realized
  • Inextinguishable

• I was 10 years old when I first heard Ginuwine. I remember being at a friend's house, and the music video came on. I was just like, 'What is that?' I was just kind of drawn from there.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Music
  • Remember
  • House

• I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Today
  • Emotion
  • Rain

• The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

  

  Olivier Messiaen
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Body