Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I can't believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it's really, really, gosh-darn neat. — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at… — William James Copy Share Image
I remember taking mushrooms at the wrap party, it was like the first and last time I took that. — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Albert Einstein once reported, "Great spirits have always encountered voilent opposition from mediocre minds." If you want to achieve your own greatness,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
"Magic is the first and last religion of the world. It has the power to make us whole, to open our eyes… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
What should we call him?" Klaus asked. "You should call him Dr. Montgomery," Mr. Poe replied, "unless he tells you to call… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore,… — Orlando Gibbons Copy Share Image
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . .… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Work does not kill you, food does. God does not kill you, food does. Food is your first and last enemy. If… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at… — Roger Sessions Copy Share Image
It's an old, established rule, but "golden hour" lighting is ideal because the first and last hours of sunlight are diffuse and… — Amy Webb Copy Share Image
I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is… — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image