"Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle."

-- Thomas Beecham

#Writing Quotes #Boys Quotes #Errands Quotes

“Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.”
“Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.”
“By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up”
“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”
“If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.”
“I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror: Robert Winston" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.
“If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.”

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