Andinterest Quotes

#1. Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her ... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.

Richard Rodney Bennett

#2. Be wary of a self-professed "nice guy". Anyone who is always going around saying they are "just trying to be nice" are most often, anything but nice. -If you're truly kind and loving, you don't have to "try". It comes naturally.

Miya Yamanouchi

#3. When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless outside the language I was speaking, building simple sentences with the blocks I'd memorized, not communicating through a fluid medium.

Ben Lerner

#4. Don't limit yourself by what you've achieved. All your past achievements are only stepping stones for the greatness to come.

LaShawnda Jones

#5. People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

Laura Miller

#6. It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn't simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation.

Tamora Pierce

#7. Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.

Doug Casey

#8. If you want to be somebody else, change your mind.

Sister Hazel

#9. I love people who aren't embarrassed. I'm always embarrassed, so it's always astonishing to me when people aren't like that.

Cecily Strong

#10. Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

Julian Barnes

#11. Change the leader, change the organization.

John C. Maxwell