""Have you heard any Stockhausen?" Beecham was asked. "No, but I believe I have stepped in some.""

-- Thomas Beecham

#Believe Quotes #Belief Quotes #I Believe Quotes

“we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.”
“The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961). My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, .. and they're kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I'm trying to inspire myself for a collection.”
“When pride retreats from a man, humility begins to dwell in him, and the more pride is diminished, so much more does humility grow. The one gives way to the other as to its opposite. Darkness departs and light appears. Pride is darkness, but humility is light.”
“I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.”
“During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.”
“Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness”
“The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.”
“This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.”

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