Quotes About Anton Bruckner

#1. Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

Edward Abbey

#2. Writing isn't everyone's favorite thing to do or what their thing is.

Lee DeWyze

#3. It's a very American thing to hide away from death.

David Fincher

#4. They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?

Anton Bruckner

#5. If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

Robert M. Pirsig

#6. The other champions don't want to fight me. Every single one.

Sergio Martinez

#7. A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. No one has the answer; only you know the way home.

Elizabeth Lesser

#9. My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.

Anne Hathaway

#10. If you want to improve your sex life as a couple, you need to examine your relationship outside the bedroom. What are you doing that is keeping you from sexual intimacy?

Kevin Leman

#11. And what's more, he'll go and live with his friend unless his friend is allowed to come in and live with him ... His friend must have a silk cushion just like his and sleep in your room too. Otherwise he will go and sleep in the coal-cellar with his friend

P.L. Travers

#12. Someday I will have to give an account of myself. How would the Father in Heaven judge me if I followed others and not Him?

Anton Bruckner

#13. When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

Larry Bird

#14. It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

Anton Bruckner

#15. Can you do it today? The notion of just trying to take each day as it came. The commitment to the present moment, and only the present moment, without worrying about the big and daunting picture of all the days that followed.

Andie Mitchell

#16. Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.

Karl E. Weick

#17. The ideas dictate everything.

David Lynch