Blomstedt Beethoven Quotes

#1. Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

Chuck Eddy

#2. She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food, religion); and for the monstrous edifices of desire (television, food, religion): she understood them all.

Clive Barker

#3. I don't believe any scientific field to be superior to another.

Abhijit Naskar

#4. It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

Diana Wynne Jones

#5. What's the use of having convictions, if you refuse to stand up up for them?

ThePoetDarkling

#6. When you're an artist, your personal life and your professional life kind of blend together. I'm writing from home so I don't have an office or anything. I don't know where to draw the line between "Okay, let's stop now and watch American Idol."

Daryl Wein

#7. The punk credo was to stand up for your own beliefs and tastes, not bow down to yet another new set of rules. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, indeed.

Billy Idol

#8. When a woman births, not only is a baby being born but so is a mother.
How we treat her will affect how she feels about herself as a mother
and as a parent.
Be gentle. Be kind. Listen.

Ruth Ehrhardt

#9. To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book will never be published - would you still write it?" If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.

Markus Zusak

#10. Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

C.S. Lewis