Forkel Quotes

#1. Johann Nikolaus Forkel, author of the monograph of which the following pages afford a translation, was born at Meeder, a small village in Saxe-Coburg, on February 22, 1749, seventeen months before the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose first biographer he became.

Johann Nikolaus Forkel

#2. [On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

Caitlin Thomas

#3. Presidents are not elected anymore; they are hired.

Michel Templet

#4. You can either let it wreck you, let it get you killed like it nearly did with the Weaver, or you can learn to live with it.

Sarah J. Maas

#5. Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel

Tom Morello

#6. When they awakened at four o'clock in the afternoon, all was quiet. Duke peeked out the door and closed it quickly.
'What do the initials M.P. stand for?' he inquired.
'Shore Patrol,' answered Trapper John.

Richard Hooker

#7. It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

Robertson Davies

#8. If looks were to be believed, he still was just a boy. Something of my age, though from his solemn quietude, I knew he was old in the soul. A boy whose black crayon would be the shortest in his box.

Tiffany McDaniel

#9. You're a phoenix, Zane. Rising from the ashes. And all I do is make you burn.

Abigail Roux

#10. Very few spiritual or religious masters know that the student is sometimes a teacher because they haven't acquired such level.

Daniel Marques