After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance:… — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
Great men, Till they have gained their ends, are giants in Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. And… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
I don't mind being sexy, but on my terms. To this day, I love sexuality. I love the art of sexuality. I… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one,… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts,… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance.… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Physiologists and high-performance trainers understand now that the concept of 110 percent is no longer a smart way to train. Fitness is… — Sally Jenkins Copy Share Image
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think that I burnt myself out a little bit with my dancing because I did so much of it. I was… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
As much as it's nice to step into that massive world of Hollywood and be a big, famous actor, I prefer the… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you… — Ian Holloway Copy Share Image
Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents;… — Franz Stampfl Copy Share Image
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
You can sit behind your computer and listen to music via a program or from the Internet and also watch performances on… — Steve Mahoney Copy Share Image
Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Humor is more so. For this, there's definitely moments that I think, "I know this part is really funny and I want… — Ti West Copy Share Image
I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
The reason everybody is so amazed and enamored with me right now is because I have worked every angle, I have worked… — Leslie Jones Copy Share Image
My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes Copy Share Image
I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an… — Joel Silver Copy Share Image
It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons:… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
![“[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when…” quote by Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e96/anton-webern-30529_canvas_the-impression-of-the-first-time-i-heard_3024013.jpg)
![“Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for the local Masonic lodge halls. It was a tight-knit community, and the support and success the act enjoyed here enabled them to hit the road and make it in big-time vaudeville.” quote by Karen Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c33/karen-abbott-13658_bigs_gypsy-rose-lee-who-was-called-louise-as_2173429.jpg)
