Clavichord Quotes

#1. Yet is it not the heart but the members of play that elevate us above the beasts: the fingers with which we touch the clavichord or the flute, the tongue with which we jest and lie and seduce. Lacking members of play, what is there left for beasts to do when they are bored but sleep?

J.M. Coetzee

#2. Or, if he's feeling more poetic, it might be Now, Frobisher, the clarinet is the concubine, the violas are yew trees in the cemetery, the clavichord is the moon, so ... let the east wind blow that A minor chord, sixteenth bar onwards.

David Mitchell

#3. And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

William Faulkner

#4. There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.

Peter J. Tomasi

#5. Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.

Robert Kiyosaki

#6. If I was going to do something I didn't want to do, I at least wanted to be remunerated for it.

Margaret Atwood

#7. I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.

Johnny Kelly

#8. We are so busy trying to make a better TOMORROW that we forget to make the best of TODAY.-RVM

R.v.m.

#9. Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.

Swami Vivekananda

#10. Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent absence?

Franz Wright