"Looking for inspiration in expression, I have actually always looked to singers and violinists. I have never really looked only at the recorder as a remedy for my expressions."

-- Michala Petri

#Inspiration Quotes #Expression Quotes #Singers Quotes

“I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.”
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
“But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just as he dies who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles.”
“Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.”

Source : Agnès Varda, T. Jefferson Kline (2013). “Agnès Varda: Interviews”, p.200, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I'm really comfortable in a stressful, leadership position. I need this job. I need to do this. This fits my personality. This is the best thing for me, short of playing.”

Source : "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
“I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much.”
“There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.”
“All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.”

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