Gregorian Quotes

#1. I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.

Elie Wiesel

#2. him dumfounded as he chanted the Gregorian

John Howard Griffin

#3. Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.

Simone Weil

#4. She had gone to a dinner party in her honor the night before the opening, and everyone had asked, with precisely the same intonation, as though it was a piece of urban Gregorian chant, Where have you been?

Anna Quindlen

#5. An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony.

Pope Benedict XVI

#6. You meet not so much to sing as to pray, or, better yet, to pray in and through your song. Gregorian chant is for you a privileged form of prayer. You are drawn to it because you perceive the link between music and the sacred, between beauty and truth.

Jacques Hourlier

#7. A teenage girl creaming while she listens to some boy-band, a monk digging on the God he hears in Gregorian chants, or John fucking Coltrane himself climbing up into the sky on a staircase made of sixteenth notes, it's all the same. If it takes you there, it's good.

Tad Williams

#8. No day before October 10, 1582, actually occurred on the Gregorian calendar for that was when the calendar was implemented officially.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. 'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to the modernism of Webern - and all in 17 minutes.

John Tavener

#10. If it smells like fish its a dish. If it smells like cologne leave it alone.

Andrew Dice Clay

#11. Christians who are strong in the faith grow as they accept whatever God allows to enter their lives.

Billy Graham

#12. She had said that she preferred to be alone for so many years that it was now one of those things that equally well might or might not be true.

Joyce Ballou Gregorian

#13. We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.

Barack Obama

#14. And now here he was, completely alone. He found this situation both euphoric (he could scratch himself and no one was looking; no one was judging him--no one!) and unsettling. (What if he choked?)

Cynthia Hand

#15. The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.

Vartan Gregorian

#16. The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Ernest Dimnet

#17. The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

Vartan Gregorian

#18. It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Vartan Gregorian

#19. In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

Vartan Gregorian

#20. The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

Vartan Gregorian

#21. Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Vartan Gregorian

#22. The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

Vartan Gregorian

#23. The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

Vartan Gregorian

#24. Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

Vartan Gregorian

#25. Value the wisdom of humility, as well as the sense of perspective it gives you.

Chris Hadfield

#26. While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here.

John Selden

#27. Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

Paul Krassner

#28. I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

Michael Flatley

#29. There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.

Vartan Gregorian

#32. Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

Vartan Gregorian

#33. Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

Vartan Gregorian

#34. It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.

Vartan Gregorian