Breathometer Reviews Quotes

#1. Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but most importantly, an iron stomach.' I feel this is for the most part true, and hope I might convey something of it to younger composers.

Michael Hersch

#3. We cannot choose who offends us, but we can choose how to respond when we are offended.

Moffat Machingura

#4. It seems God has been practicing shooting troubles at me.

Pawan Mishra

#5. The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

John Ruskin

#6. Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.

Larry Atchley Jr.

#7. A dog is the most joyful friend that you can have.

Debasish Mridha

#8. I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.

James Herbert

#9. I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne - Pedro Almodovar wouldn't be too shabby. There are so many good directors, but those are some of my favorites.

Kirsten Dunst

#10. There is no power in hope, but there is plenty in fear, and I never want to find myself sleeping in a shack again.

Jennifer Ellision

#11. The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

Garrison Keillor

#12. But of course Anton turned out to be brave and strong, and so he died while he was still unlikable.

Elise Blackwell

#13. Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.

Alice Dreger

#14. It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them

Ernest Gellner

#15. Every day is a near-death experience.

Sarah Elizabeth Schantz