Harry Partch Quotes

#1. Richer than I you can never be,
I had a mother who read to me.

Strickland Gillilan

#2. Life's extremities can bring God's proximity.

Elaine A. Cannon

#3. Life's too short to spend with important people.

Harry Partch

#4. How in the hell am I supposed to watch my back if I have no idea what I'm watching for?

Julia Quinn

#5. If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats.

Thom Yorke

#6. Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales.

Harry Partch

#8. True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;
Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,
That gives us back the image of our mind.
As shades more sweetly recommend the light,
So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

Alexander Pope

#9. Circumlocution," said Mr. Croup to Mr. Vandemar. "It's a way of speaking around something. A digression. Verbosity.

Neil Gaiman

#10. Life is too precious to spend it with important people.

Harry Partch

#11. The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

Harry Partch

#12. People say to me. 'What about the rich?' They need Jesus too.' Well, that's fine if you're called to them, but we're called to the poor. The rich can look after themselves.

Jackie Pullinger

#13. All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#14. Procrastination, fear, and uncertainty are what I like to call the enemies of progress, preventing us from pursuing our dreams and achieving the goals we set for ourselves.

Orly Wahba

#15. Opening up the Capitol dome and giving the public a look at the inner workings of Congress - however messy they may be - certainly won't be pretty. But trust isn't earned by showing off only your Sunday best. The dirty laundry has to be aired, too.

Mike Quigley

#16. Adversity is only sand on your track to prevent you from skidding.

Croft M. Pentz

#17. What I want for Christmas is to be a Japanese pop star. [Laughs] Santa can't exactly put that under the tree, but I'm hoping that some magic will happen overseas.

Candice Accola

#18. Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

Walter Lippmann