Artur Schnabel Quotes

Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.

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• In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Society
  • Changes

• I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Will

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Machine

• Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Job
  • Cricket
  • Committee

• If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Think
  • Free
  • Small

• Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Words

• I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Business
  • Hair
  • Red

• What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Funny
  • Know

• I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Reality
  • Really
  • Pragmatic

• My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Time
  • Ugly
  • Swing

• Existence is its own justification, need is right.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Soul
  • Evil

• Spit bars you can't touch, like tits in strip bars, get scarred, I drop hits to hit hard

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star

• Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.

  

  Quintilian

• Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Song

• I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

  

  Penelope Ann Miller
  • Children
  • Family
  • Ambition

• Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • Honor
  • Trump

• I try always to intimate with the world… with everything I can, to feel love for it, or interest in it. To be intimate you have to open yourself, to be fearless, to trust what is around you, animate and inanimate. Then you start to change the scale of things, of the public and private.

  

  Gabriel Orozco
  • World
  • Trying
  • Trust

• Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens, and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere - modern man is filled with pride in the progress accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism.

  

  Savitri Devi
  • Men
  • Age
  • Christian

• I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Play
  • Band
  • Guitar

• The conclusion of the essay 'Of the Protestant Succession' shows me a Whig, but a very sceptical one.

  

  David Hume

• As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Stupid

• Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.

  

  Artur Schnabel
  • Garden
  • Mountain
  • Forest