Canticum Sacrum Quotes

#1. 'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to the modernism of Webern - and all in 17 minutes.

John Tavener

#2. But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink?

Marilyn French

#3. I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.

Esperanza Spalding

#4. Laws are made against the impulse a people most fears in itself. Do not kill was the Shing's vaunted single Law. All else was permitted: which meant, perhaps, there was little else they really wanted to do ...

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. Although I am not a climatologist, it has been interesting to observe climatology from the point of view of an arctic scientist. In order for the field of climatology and IPCC to be healthy, I want to provide a few criticisms, which I hope are constructive.

Syun-Ichi Akasofu

#6. Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.

Pope Francis

#7. Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal possession any more. It was something to be traded, bought and sold. It fetched a high price, or a low one. It was kicked in the common market.

Daphne Du Maurier

#8. Affection conquers all obstacles, and the weakest and most inefficient girl that ever stepped, if she have strong within' her that love which, in all its sacred intensity, knows no fear, shall indeed accomplish much.

Edward Lloyd

#9. I don't think I'm as bad as I'm made out to be. I did things in Philadelphia, but I don't have any intention of doing those things in St. Louis.

Richie Allen

#10. When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

Barbara Cartland

#11. Sometimes your heart is fullest when you know it's breaking. Sometimes, the sky has to darken so the stars can shine brightest. Sometimes your soul is happiest when the worst possible thing in your life has come to pass. Because there is nothing left to hold on to, and fear grows wings to fly.

Baylie Karperien

#12. The armies massing ... crowding thick-and-fast
as the swarms of flies seething over the shepherds' stalls
in the first spring days when the buckets flood with milk-
so many long-haired Achaeans swarmed across the plain
to confront the Trojans, fired to smash their lines

Fagles Robert