Top 19 Executant Quotes
#1. The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force.
George Steiner
#2. Pictures, apart from their aesthetic interest, can achieve the mysterious fascination of those enigmatic scrawls on walls, the expression of Heaven knows what psychological urge on the part of the executant;
Anthony Powell
#3. Music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.
Baroness Orczy
#4. My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
Thomas Hardy
#5. The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes.
Henry James
#6. The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects ... a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion.
Adolf Hitler
#7. The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.
Wyndham Lewis
#9. But we had young turnips and mustard greens in our befuddled stomach that day, and these things make bravery.
Catherynne M Valente
#10. I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.
Diana Ross
#11. Think that; I know I should be grateful for the way we have been welcomed. Sick, wounded, starving, and empty-handed. Still, I can never get around the fact that District 13 was
Suzanne Collins
#12. The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#13. When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.
Will Rogers
#14. When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.
John Calvin
#15. Suicide by media can take a lifetime.
Mark Ebner
#17. I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums.
Dave Willis
#18. The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#19. Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there ...
Erma Bombeck