Medtner Quotes

#1. I think one of the reasons [Nikolai] Medtner hasn't had a chance is that his music needs very, very committed performances. If you play his works passively, the juice of his music is really not going to be extracted - it's simply not going to come out.

Marc-Andre Hamelin

#2. The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.

Neale Donald Walsch

#3. I've always referred to my father as 'my coach' because we were always able to separate our relationship into the roles of coach and parent.

Sebastian Coe

#4. The atom was split by persistence.

Walter Kirn

#5. I've heard of a third eye, but I didn't realize it was a googly eye. I thought it was mythical.

Jean Oram

#6. Do women always care about the size of their stomachs?"
"Til the day they die, son."
"Will they ever know that we don't really care?"
"Do men always think everything is about them?" she mocks.
"Til the day they die, Gram." I wink at her.

Allie Brennan

#7. We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

Ted E. Brewerton

#8. If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

#9. I've never been on a film when an entire cast signs up for the entire time.

Hugh Jackman

#10. Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

John Dryden