Figures Quote by Virgil Thomson Download Open image “You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.” — Virgil Thomson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Figures Way
It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
If I said It would take too long to explain. I really meant I have no idea how it works. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you can't explain it simply...then you don't understand it well enough. — Albert Enstine Copy Share Image
I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I let her alone and when she got that finished she left me alone. We trusted each other. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started… — Maria Bello Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
The best way to hold customers is to constantly figure out how to give them more for less. — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville. — Jason Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works,… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure I made… — Jenna Black Copy Share Image