"Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound."

-- Ralph Vaughan Williams

#Mean Quotes #Reality Quotes #Sound Quotes

“For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.”
“God gave me emotions so I could experience life, not destroy it”
“Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.”
“I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.”
“... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.”

Source : Jon Wynne-Tyson (1972). “The Civilised Alternative: A Pattern for Protest”
“If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?”
“I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.”
“If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?”

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