Olivier Messiaen Quotes
It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
-
I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
-
As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
-
I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
-
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
-
What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
-
Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.
-
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
-
'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.
-
Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
-
If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
-
I don't know if I'm really the fastest. It doesn't matter.
-
Every child has to raise itself.
-
I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.
-
I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
-
It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as firmly believed by me as ever; and through persecutions have attended, and the rage and malice of men been heaped upon me, I feel equally as firm in the great and glorious cause as when first I received my mission from the holy messenger.
-
I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet
-
I really like how the sixth book is going. A lot happens in the sixth book and a lot of questions are answered. I really have a sense that we are nearly there and it is time for answers, not more questions and clues, although obviously there are a few clues as I am not quite finished yet.
-
There are 6 billion people in the world. It's hard to find the one person who's right for you.
-
But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.
-
Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a mate, to claim their territory, or simply to give voice to the delight of being alive in the midst of a beautiful day. Perhaps more than the birds do, humans hold a grudge. They sing to complain of how grievously they have been wronged, and how to avoid it in the future. They sing to help themselves execute a job of work. They sing so the subsequent generations won’t forget what the current generation endured, or dreamed, or delighted in.
-
You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.
-
It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.
