Pitchy Steady Quotes

#1. If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.

Peter Maxwell Davies

#2. Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. My colleagues thought I was an embarrassment because I was talking about mind, body, spirit. So I was called a quack. I was called a fraud, which I initially resented, but then I got used to it.

Deepak Chopra

#4. I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.

Anna Akhmatova

#5. College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

Ossie Davis

#6. No man finds it difficult to return to nature, except the man who has deserted nature. We

Seneca.

#7. We all know what a big giant sword you have, I'm sure. No need for you to wave it in our faces yet again.

George R R Martin

#8. The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.

John Lennon

#9. Well, they got married. No one pulled a Jane Eyre ...

Charlaine Harris

#10. She's right, thought Boric. I'm a dead man riding a winged bear named Bubbles.

Robert Kroese

#11. Judging from the state of my consciousness at the time, millions of years of hominid evolution had produced nothing more transcendent than a craving for a cheeseburger and a chocolate milkshake.

Sam Harris

#12. Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.

Chuck Mangione

#13. I think I met your friend Charley."
"You ... did? When?"
"When I looked in the mirror this morning."
She stood in disbelief for a moment. Then astonishment. Then doubt. Then hope. Then wariness. Aka, the five stages of Cookie.

Darynda Jones

#14. Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her.
[Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

Aulus Persius Flaccus