Czernin Hubertus Quotes

#1. I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.

George Stokes

#2. Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

Benjamin Britten

#3. I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?

Maurice Sendak

#4. And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

Cy Twombly

#5. There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity

Carl Sagan

#6. I had never come across a talking cat before, but good manners, as my father used to say, cost nothing.

Jasper Fforde