Abdessalam El Quotes

#1. He was a six and a half foot scowl.
(on Rachmaninov)

Igor Stravinsky

#2. Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?

Thomas Paine

#3. If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

Michael Flanders

#4. We're the weirdest monkeys ever.

Karl Lehenbauer

#5. In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet's projected 8.9 billion people will live in countries that are chronically short of water.

Rose George

#6. At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it - but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

Heinrich Heine

#7. Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau