"Music is the silence between the notes."

-- Claude Debussy

#Silence Quotes #Quiet Quotes #Notes Quotes

“There are a lot of good people going to Hell, and a lot of bad people like you and me going to Heaven!”
“We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.”

Source : Terry Goodkind (2018). “Debt of Bones”, p.96, Tor Fantasy
“What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.”
“I wonder if the sap is stirring yet, If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate, If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun And crocus fires are kindling one by one: Sing robin, sing: I still am sore in doubt concerning Spring.”
“Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.”
“Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.”
“There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.”
“It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.”

Source : Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor

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