Piano Lesson Quotes

#1. 'The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.

Jane Campion

#2. This is the antinomy: insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Brian Tracy

#4. If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

George McGovern

#5. A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

Robert Carlyle

#6. When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

Laini Taylor

#7. When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#8. I'd give anything if you'd kiss me." I said. "I mean," I said when he tilted his head to look at me, his eyes wide in shock, "I've kissed guys before. It's like a handshake these days," I lied, just wanting to know what his lips on mind would feel like. "Almost required if you're leaving.

Kim Harrison

#9. Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.

Mark Cuban

#10. The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed.

Philip Larkin

#11. Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

Maz Jobrani

#12. . . . when a woman has a husband
And you've got none,
Why should she take advice from you?
Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare
And all them other highfalutin' Greeks.

Meredith Willson

#13. The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

Mark Twain

#14. Determine Right. Decide Fast. Apply Energy. Act with Conviction. Fight to the Finish. Accept the Consequences. Move on.

Brooke Kroeger

#15. I never actually had a guitar lesson. I taught myself the guitar from piano exercise books, which led me to have a pretty good technique on the guitar and allowed me to find different ways to do things.

Trevor Rabin

#16. The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

Eddie Van Halen