"It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work."

-- Gyorgy Ligeti

#Home Quotes #Mean Quotes #Modesty Quotes

“Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets, no food. . . . My heart is sick and sad. . . . I will fight no more forever.”
“Sometimes I shut up cause I'm afraid I don't have anything interesting to tell anyway”
“the one universal form of art is music.”
“I try to make my things aesthetically pleasing; but, if it isnâ€™t functional, people will â€˜ooâ€™ and â€˜aahâ€™ over it in an exhibit but they wonâ€™t buy it. â€¦ My feeling is a chair has to be functional and comfortable for tall and short alike.”
“Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don't let her be lonely. Don't let her hurt. Please.”
“He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.”
“The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.”

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