Good music is very close to primitive language.
DENIS DIDEROTNo doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
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Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
BEN KINGSLEY -
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISON -
You’ll never be a mature Christian until you understand that God remembers his promises and forgets your sins.
KEVIN DEYOUNG -
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
When Mrs. Jinnah feels cold, she will say so, and ask for a wrap herself.
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH -
Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
AIMEE MULLINS -
Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?
BARBARA HOLLAND -
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
PARACELSUS -
I take a few deep breaths, envision what I’d like to achieve that day, then rid my mind of anything that isn’t going to help me get there.
BETH RIESGRAF -
In the investing business you need a – a high degree of confidence but you also need a high degree of humbleness and you have to balance those two… Humbleness comes from mistakes.
BILL ACKMAN -
You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
RICHARD WRIGHT -
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it
BEN OKRI -
All the nations of the earth must learn to live together in peace. Why be prejudiced against anyone because of their race, nationality, or creed? When there’s so many real reasons to hate others.
EMO PHILIPS -
True love requires letting go of resentment from expired love.
VINCENT JAMES