"Even when you are not playing you are holding me back."

-- Eugene Ormandy

#Holding On Quotes

“The girl she said, I didnâ€™t tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They donâ€™t want to lose them.”
“...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.”
“My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place. It's a sense of near nothingness, as though I were not so much a blank slate as an erased chalkboard, still bearing illegible smudges of smoothed-over writing.”
“Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.”
“Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.”
“Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.”
“I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.”
“If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.”

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