Percy Grainger Quotes

#1. All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected with meat-, fish-, and poultry eating. As a child, I saw apparently nice, kind people wring the necks of fowls, and I thought it foul; and I wondered if I could ever exert any influence to help bring such unworthiness to an end.

Percy Grainger

#2. In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them. I can see that through them came Wagner and Mahler and Schoenberg and Berg. And then came Tracey Emin. And I can see it all as one downward path.

John Tavener

#3. Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can write a novel about New York and people from the country will read it if they feel that you've made them familiar with New York.

Stephen King

#4. I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and I do not drink, and therefore, I do not feel the cold.

Percy Grainger

#5. Politicians are a lot like five-year-olds. You know: one day they're best friends and five minutes later they're rolling around in the sandpit biting chunks out of each other.

Robert Muchamore

#6. The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.

Percy Grainger

#7. He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it - that there is no use in marking the place and coming back to it at a more convenient season, because it will not be there then.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution.

Marco Rubio

#10. Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?

Joseph Howe

#11. Make sure you implement your vision

Sunday Adelaja

#12. You know all of my fears. There's nothing your eyes can't see. When I tried to give up Lord, you never gave up on me.

Peter Furler