Claude Debussy Quotes
Music should humbly seek to please; within these limits great beauty may perhaps be found. Extreme complication is contrary to art. Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.Claude Debussy
Quotes to Explore
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
Hannah Storm -
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson -
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Mae West -
Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
B. D. Wong -
History's a resource.
Laura Linney -
If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
Pamela Sue Martin
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
Lao Tzu -
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
Zig Ziglar -
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
Laura Schlessinger -
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
Jack Nicklaus
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
Hailee Steinfeld -
Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
Kate Middleton -
I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
Vanessa Minnillo -
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylor -
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
Ian Watson -
My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
Zubin Mehta
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
J. D. Salinger -
For me, love is endless, and love has no age limit.
Khalid -
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler -
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
H. L. Mencken -
You got to use what you got to get just what you want.
James Brown -
Music should humbly seek to please; within these limits great beauty may perhaps be found. Extreme complication is contrary to art. Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
Claude Debussy