Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

James Levine

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

John Milton Cage

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Cesare Pavese

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

Slavoj Zizek

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Rabindranath Tagore

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

William Faulkner

Política não é apenas ideal, é caminho para se aproximar do ideal

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Another drag, and he thought that it was like having your mind shaken out like a duvet, so that it resettled without creases, so that everything became smooth and simple and easy and good.

J.K. Rowling

If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.

Roberto Clemente

I think I might love you too, Charter help me, but now is-

Garth Nix

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Alexis Carrel

Courage brother, do not stumble,

Norman Macleod