Clara Schumann Quotes

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

Clara Schumann

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• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Promise

• Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Always

• When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Intent

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Old

• LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Circumstances
  • Shot
  • Off

• I have a strong affinity for animals.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Strong
  • Animals
  • Affinity

• Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Union
  • Matrimony
  • Martyrdom

• I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Painting

• All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Free
  • Me
  • Choice

• In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Low-Key

• When I directed my first short – 'American Virgin' – I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Pretty
  • Idea
  • Sea

• He'll never fall in loveHe swears, as he runs his fingers through his hair.I'm laughing 'cause I hope he's wrong.And I don't think it ever crossed his mind.He tells a joke, I fake a smileThat I know all his favorite songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Fall

• Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.

  

  Alfred Whitney Griswold
  • Good
  • Done
  • Truth

• Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Men
  • Power

• The unbeliever walks for a quadrillion miles, yet one moments of reality makes up for it.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Moments

• Non-fiction contains facts, fiction contains truth.

  

  Clive Barker
  • Truth

• Borromeo also organized partial quarantines, especially for women, whom he regarded not only as more likely to occasion sin but as the primary carriers of plague (because, he said, they talked so much and constantly visited each other’s houses).

  

  Andrew Graham-Dixon
  • Women
  • Houses
  • Plague

• 'Don't you want to join us?' I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. 'No, I don't,' I said.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Alone

• He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Enemy
  • Fate
  • Security

• Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Wonder
  • Hatred
  • Passive

• Philly has been dominating things in the division. You aren't going to go anywhere until you can match up with them.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Division
  • Dominant

• Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

  

  Clara Schumann