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Something Quotes by John Cage
- If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it…
- The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you…
- There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try…
- There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
- Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.
- If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.
- We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for…
- We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what…
- One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
- It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and…
- Every something is an echo of nothing
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- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle