Borodin Quotes

#1. Rock and roll is music," said Vanya.
"Prokofiev is music, Stravinski is music, Tchaikovski and Borodin and Rimski-Korsakov and even Rachmaninov, THEY are music. Rock and roll is smart boys with no respect, YOU are rock and roll.

Orson Scott Card

#2. the next time you listen to Borodin remember his wife used his compositions to line the cat boxes with or to cover jars of sour milk;

Charles Bukowski

#3. One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

Paul Wolfowitz

#4. Maybe someone would write a play just for me, one where a real woman could fight with her sword, and had many fine adventures and changes of costume.

Ellen Kushner

#5. Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

Alexander Borodin

#6. Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.

Watt Key

#7. Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

Alexander Borodin

#8. I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.

Alexander Borodin

#9. You know how some people complain about the way carriage horses are treated? That they are in a small stall? That is mistreatment. In a holding cell, you get very bored. You have no newspapers, you have no anything.

Bernhard Goetz

#10. If you do not believe in miracles they cannot happen.

Helena Kalivoda

#11. I learn more from books than from people

William Sleator

#12. You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.

John Walters