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There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major. — Arnold Schoenberg
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the… — Maurice Ravel
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo,… — Dmitri Shostakovich
Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little… — Florence Nightingale
The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient… — A. V. Dicey
Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to… — Laozi
I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word. — Ivan Doig
We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke… — Mike Pence
In fact, Christianity has been one of the great salivations on planet Earth. It's what's necessary in the Middle East. Others have written about it,… — Michael Savage
As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the… — John Millington Synge
God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and… — Stephen Jay Gould
In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it… — Miriam Makeba
The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God. — Michael Faraday
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an… — Clifford Geertz
An entire composition written in jazz could not live. — George Gershwin
Many, many of you have written to me asking the following question: 'Dave, have their been any new advancements in the field of artificial falcon… — Dave Barry
I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a… — Tory Burch
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing.… — Helen Vendler
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person. — Lois Lowry
I do feel I was overshadowed by some of those guys (who took steroids) . . . I had a diminished-skills clause written in after… — Frank Thomas
If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone. — Henri Matisse
They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just… — Joe Paterno

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