Finzi Quotes

#1. He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.
Serried. Then just as suddenly empty when his sound-proof right hand closed off the notes.

Craig Raine

#2. Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.
Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.
Presoak it in dance, music and art.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#3. I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

Elton John

#4. But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

Gerald Finzi

#5. I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.

Richard Lewis

#6. Nothing in this universe occurs by accident.

Neale Donald Walsch

#7. I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

Marilyn Manson

#8. "Eight Days of Luke" was refused by another confused publisher on the grounds that children shouldn't strike matches. When my agent pointed out that David in the book was twelve years old, the publisher said that he was striking matches to summon the devil, then, and this couldn't be allowed.

Diana Wynne Jones

#9. Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.

Lawrence Reed

#10. What I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical axiom: the amount of financial help an individual or company needs rises in direct proportion to how many people that person or business is screwing.

Stephen King

#11. God's love may take the form of wrath. It can show itself to us as a calamity. This is the difficult lesson its taken me a lifetime to learn.

Ian McEwan

#12. A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love.

Helen Steiner Rice

#13. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Augustus Hare

#14. There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

Gerald Finzi

#15. A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye.

Katarina Anhava