Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?[Albert Einstein] Quote:If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.[Mark Twain] Quote:Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.[Dave Barry] Quote:Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.[Dave Barry] Quote:The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.[Dave Barry] Quote:A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.[Robert Frost] Quote:Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.[Dave Barry] Quote:Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.[Dave Barry] Quote:I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.[Dave Barry] Quote:I have not felt remotely cool for a long time, thanks largely to the relentless efforts of my teenage son, whose goal in life is to make me feel 3,500 years old. We'll be in the car, and he'll say, 'You wanna hear my new CD?' And I, flattered that he thinks his old man might like the same music he does, will say 'Sure!' So he increases the sound-system volume setting from '4' to 'Meteor Impact,' and he puts in a CD by a band with a name like 'Pustule,' and the next thing I know gigantic nuclear bass notes have blown out all the car windows and activated both the driver- and passenger-side air bags, and I'm writhing on the floor, screaming for mercy with jets of blood spurting three feet from my ears. My son then ejects the CD, smiling contentedly, knowing he as purchased a winner. On those extremely rare occasions when I like one of his CDs, I imagine he destroys it with a blowtorch.[Dave Barry] Quote:They sicken of the calm who know the storm.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.[Mark Twain] Quote:After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.[Yogi Berra] Quote:For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.[Steve Martin] Quote:Film lovers are sick people.[Francois Truffaut] Quote:In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.[Woody Allen] Quote:Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:If music be the food of love, play on.[William Shakespeare] Quote:Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.[Woody Allen] Quote:Dualism is a truncated metaphysic.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home.[Carol Nelson] Quote:For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Without music, life would be a mistake.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:When real music comes to me - the music of the speres, the music that surpasseth understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium...those moments are what I live for.[John Lennon] Quote:Life is just one grand sweet song, so start the music.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.[John Adams] Quote:Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:Only sick music makes money today.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Without music, life would be a mistake.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Life without music would be a mistake.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' [Aaron Copland] Quote:After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:Health is not valued till sickness comes. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:All science is either physics or stamp collecting. [George Santayana] Quote:Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. [Aeschylus] Quote:It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. [Jackie Mason] Quote:Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it, it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Wagner's music is better than it sounds. [Chuck] Quote:Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was? My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly. [Joseph Addison] Quote:The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. [Ayn Rand] Quote:All science is either physics or stamp collecting. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. [Groucho Marx] Quote:History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast? [Henry Bromel] Quote:After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone. [Henry Bromel] Quote:Silence is more musical than any song. [Christina Rossetti] Quote:Be not slow to visit the sick. [Ecclesiastes] Quote:When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. [Bill Clinton] Quote:There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand. [Charles Rosin] Definitions of: sicDefinition: Such. |
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