Hours Quote by Alice Foote MacDougall Download Open image “a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.” — Alice Foote MacDougall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hours Music Restful Sleep
On the night of Brexit, while some people were celebrating and others were having wakes, I stayed in and played Beethoven, his quartets mainly,… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is! — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for… — Benjamin Britten Copy Share Image
“I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Beethoven was always too much. He's not slightly anything - he's very everything. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
“Never forget that is the quality and not the quantity of sleep that is important. It is better to have six hours of uninterrupted… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents. — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes. — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts. — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets pornography meets politics -… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
