"My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere."

--

Jeanette Winterson

#Character Quotes #Spotlight Quotes

“So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.”
“A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated.”

Source : Cornelius Cardew, Richard Barrett (2006). “Cornelius Cardew: A Reader”
“I was bruised, but I wasnâ€™t broken.”
“That's what I hope to put out onto the pitch - a team that knows how to win matches.”
“A great mind must be androgynous.”

Source : Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.96
“I had always been told the bible was a book about love, but I couldn't find enough love in it to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the bible; God is vengeance. There is no other book between whose covers life is so cheap.”
“I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.”
“"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.”

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