Pianoforte Quotes

#1. What were her abilities? She played the pianoforte passably well even though it didn't interest her. She loved to read and could spend the rest of her life in a library. She'd written a book, and her imagination was such that she could transport herself from the wilds of Scotland to anywhere.

Karen Ranney

#2. I meant to learn something," Sophie said, impatient. "Something else than embroidery or dancing, or playing pretty tunes on the pianoforte. I am not a decorative object, Father. I have an intellect, also, and I wish to make good use of it.

Sylvia Izzo Hunter

#3. The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that sprang from

John C. Wright

#5. how dismal it is to have no one to go to in the morning to share one's griefs and joys; how hateful when something weighs on you and there's nowhere to lay it down. You know to what I refer. I often tell to my pianoforte what I want to tell to you.

Frederic Chopin

#6. The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

Heinrich Heine

#7. Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice at all, he might truly have been said to have done so instinctively.

Charles Darwin

#9. The sign of a true woman isn't the ability to recite French poetry or play the pianoforte or cook Chateaubriand. The sign of a true woman is learning to listen to her own voice even when society does its best to drown it out.

Eve Marie Mont

#10. Girls were meant to paint screens, sob out ballads, and play the pianoforte, not see through the masks of polite society. It

Alison Goodman

#11. Give me liberty or a bran muffin!

Colin Mochrie

#12. My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.

Chiang Kai-shek

#13. Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

Pico Iyer

#14. Play-ground, his

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. He gathers me up and I'm weightless before he sets me on the railing. He's the only thing keeping me from falling back, out of the reach of daylight. I'm not afraid of falling. I don't fear the sky beyond the train tracks like I did before. I can go anywhere just so long as it's with him.

Lauren DeStefano

#16. Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, "deadness". Functionally identical to muscular armor (chronic muscular spasms)

Wilhelm Reich

#17. From a very early age, I was in tune with pop radio, and most of this listening was done driving. We had an old '67 or '65 Buick LeSabre, and whenever we would drive around, I would actually stick my head right against the speakers in the back and sing along to the music.

Greg Graffin

#18. Delayed gratification is one of the greatest virtues our nation and churches need to embrace.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

#20. I found out very early that the more you want to hold people the more they want to be free.

Gordon Merrick

#21. To be tired it is only in your mind.

Serge Nubret

#22. Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#23. The industry needs transforming. It's for others to decide whether they want to get stuck in the past or whether they want to come on the journey.

Lucian

#24. My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.

Ida Tarbell

#25. But sometimes it takes only a photograph and a sentence to make an author cry himself to sleep even years after the photograph was taken.

Lemony Snicket