Nocturne Quotes

#1. But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.

Mark Tobey

#2. The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.

Susan Stewart

#3. Nocturne

Midnight. The moon
has set, and the Pleiades.
The hours pass
and pass, yet still I lie alone.

Sappho

Sherod Santos

#4. I don't think marijuana should be illegal.

Jon Stewart

#5. Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

Gene Autry

#6. I took her to bed with silk and song
'Lay still, my love, I won't be long,
I must prepare my body for passion.'
'O, your body you give, but all else you ration ...

Roman Payne

#7. To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Doug Larson

#8. We quenched the bulging flame, amongst
the ashes embers of fire remain

Mie Hansson

#9. Freedom in the Biblical sense is always at a price; it is a costly gift, and it requires great things of us.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#10. Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.

Esperanza Spalding