Parsifal Quotes

#1. I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.

Richard Wagner

#2. I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

Patti Smith

#3. Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: "I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come", and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: "You see, my son, time turns here into space

Richard Wagner

#4. I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.

Studs Terkel

#5. Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back from their tests. She figured the square root of the date while other people knit and read. Sabine blamed much of the world's unhappiness on the advent of calculators.

Ann Patchett

#6. In Parsifal: You see, my son, here time turns into space.

Philip K. Dick

#7. I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote Parsifal. It has to do with the Grail, Christ, suffering, pity and healing. Right?" And they answer, "Well, we read it and it makes no sense." SLAM.

Philip K. Dick

#8. I must be alive," Gawain said hoarsely. "Dead doesn't hurt this much.

Gerald Morris

#9. There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

Ella Maillart

#10. I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.

Don Baylor

#11. While the Congress came out with Federal Investigation Agency Bill after Mumbai attacks, the BJP had come out with POTA. However, the important aspect is how to prevent such terror activities from taking place and there is no thinking on this by either of the two parties

Sitaram Yechury

#12. The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

David Lloyd George

#13. The Element is the meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion.

Ken Robinson

#14. For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth. History

Sebastian Barry

#15. Please." His voice was quiet. "I can't stand the thought of losing you. What can I do?

R.K. Lilley

#16. The more things for which you develop a fondness the richer the life you live.

Dan Buettner

#17. Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he does not like.

Lester Thurow

#18. I don't have an idol per se.

Genesis Rodriguez

#19. Speaker says psychology has commandeered "everything hard" and partitioned it from Scripture with the assumption that its causes are biological

Edward T. Welch

#20. Something on his, and he held up a hand to indicate

Elizabeth Strout

#21. A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't

Douglas Adams

#22. One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL because of the way we ACT. So an almost uncanny way to change your feelings is to act the way you WISH you felt.

Gretchen Rubin