Bernard Haitink Quotes

#1. If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

Idries Shah

#2. No matter how slick the technology or charming the person on screen, I don't think we'll ever be able to replicate the full extent of the human learning experience online.

Clara Parkes

#3. When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#4. I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

Vivien Leigh

#5. I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

Mark Haddon

#6. Things happen. Things that physics and math and crap that gets measured in a lab can't explain. People aren't just laws and rules, Claire. They're ... sparks. Sparks of something beautiful and huge. And some sparks glow brighter

Rachel Caine

#7. Dream Song:
In the heavens
A noise,
Like the rustling of the trees.

Frances Densmore

#8. As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

Jurgen Moltmann

#9. I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

Bernard Haitink