Dmitri Kabalevsky Quotes

#1. A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.

Isobelle Carmody

#3. I've been young & dumb, and if I were never called out on it I would now be older and dumber.

Karen E. Quinones Miller

#4. It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.

Maya Angelou

#5. In the face of cold power, she is fire.

Pierce Brown

#6. When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

Milan Kundera

#7. Weirdly, for someone who wanted to be funny, I didn't like a lot of attention.

Michael Keaton

#8. You will see that this is true, though you will also see that between the mad and the misguided, the line is as thin as a split hair that has been split again.

Dean Koontz

#9. I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

Jeb Bush

#10. You dictate how people will treat you by how you treat yourself...

La La Anthony