When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
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When I was a boy growimg up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him I wanted to be a real major league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be president of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
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But then, Wagner added, the adolescent is also far more developed than the newborn and yet society values both lives equally. The burden for pro-choice advocates, therefore, is to demonstrate that the change a human undergoes as she develops from a fetus to a newborn [is] so different from all future developments that it alters her ontological status entirely. They must also show that the value of a human being depends on the characteristics that he or she acquires rather than on the kind of thing that it is.
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The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
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I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
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... our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is going...
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
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Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
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I went to the Bach Choir concert and heard Mozart's Requiem. I did not rise warmly to it. Then I heard an extract from Parsifal which I disliked very much. If Bach wriggles, Wagner writhes...
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What is reality, anyway Just a collective hunch.
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That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.
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A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.
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He was all for catharsis and purification, he dreamed of an aesthetic consecration that should cleanse society of luxury, the greed of gold an...
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I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
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I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.
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We treat a lot of patients who have tans and get skin cancer. We tell them to cut back [on their tanning], but they just can't seem to stop.
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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
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Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
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A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.
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I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.
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Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool.
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No more sense of direction than a bunch of firecrackers.
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Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had 600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
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'All my llife I wanted to be someone ; I guess I should of been more specific'.
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Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us.
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Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
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All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
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