"I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust."

-- Igor Stravinsky

#Inspirational Quotes #Music Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.”

Source : "Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2001.
“Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books.”
“One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.”

Source : Michael Mandelbaum (2010). “The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era”, p.194, PublicAffairs
“Global market forces will sort out those companies that do not have sound corporate governance.”
“Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us.”
“When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.”
“Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.”
“I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.”

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