Grieg's Quotes

#1. She went up to his bedroom door and listened to the wildly twanging bed springs as they reached a crescendo as they built toward a finale worthy of Grieg's 'In the Hall of the Mountain King

John Kennedy Toole

#2. In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

Edvard Grieg

#3. I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more ...

Dante Alighieri

#4. A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

Edvard Grieg

#5. I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.

Edvard Grieg

#6. We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too ... obviously ... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.

Skitch Henderson

#7. Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted ... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.

Edvard Grieg

#8. But I've always had a low voice, I can't yell, the words fall a short distance away like a handful of pebbles thrown by a child.

Elena Ferrante

#9. Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#10. To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement for being able to bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is - a mystery.

Edvard Grieg

#11. On the outside I smiled and looked okay, on the inside I died slowly and willingly

Carol Wambui Ngabura

#12. Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.

Suzanne Collins

#13. See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

James Daly

#14. I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me; I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.

Erin Daniels

#15. Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

Christiane Amanpour

#16. Behind the mountain is another mountain; behind the fire is another fire.

Nick Lake

#17. I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

Edvard Grieg

#18. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

Edvard Grieg

#19. Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Edvard Grieg