Du Pre Quotes

#1. My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

Yo-Yo Ma

#2. There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle ... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

Plutarch

#3. Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#4. The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

Jacqueline Du Pre

#5. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

Jacqueline Du Pre

#6. Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.

Jacqueline Du Pre

#7. Researchers in the U.K. have developed a vegetable called "super broccoli" designed to fight heart disease. Not to be outdone, researchers in America have developed a way to stuff an Oreo inside another Oreo.

Jimmy Fallon

#8. Thou shalt be free
As mountain winds: but then exactly do
All points of my command.

William Shakespeare

#9. I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Martha Gellhorn

#10. I was raised in church by Christian parents and I was baptized when I was 11 years old. But I didn't really have a good understanding of what the Gospel was really all about until college.

Lance Berkman

#11. I can smell your blood now. I can smell it in every room of the house.

Jolie Du Pre

#12. God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'

Nicholas Of Cusa

#13. Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.

Hugh Laurie

#14. My parents never said it. They thought
you shouldn't wear out the words

Lisa Kleypas

#15. You often don't choose the attractive or the deceptive paths, but they choose you, they pull you to the path!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. A Lannister always paid his debts.

Anonymous

#17. It is a curious fact that the more sophisticated we become the simpler grows our speech.

George Eliot