Charles Angoff famous quotes

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.
-- Charles Angoff

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Home is where you hange your memories. . . Home is where you begin again to dream again.
-- Charles Angoff

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Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole purpose is to reach the final crescendo. The joy is found in listening to the music in each moment.

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in Heaven to the Apostles, when he speaks of the kingdom of the Father, he is always pointing toward eternity. However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content. He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not. The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal.

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.

History is the great propagator of doubt.

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.