Quotes About Beethoven's Ninth

#1. We live in a world of excess: too many kinds of coffee, too many magazines, too many types of bread, too many digital recordings of Beethoven's Ninth, too many choices of rearview mirrors on the latest Renault. Sometimes you say to yourself: It's too much, it's all too much.

Corinne Maier

#2. Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful.
If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful.
If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

Paul Erdos

#3. I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. Oh, well
he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.

Billy Wilder

#5. At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. And this famine was as purely a product of oversize brains as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God

Elizabeth Wein

#8. Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.

Lawrence Wright

#9. I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.

Christina Ricci

#10. I don't know. How did Beethoven hear the Ninth Symphony in his head before he wrote it down? The brain's a pretty good computer, too, isn't it?

Isaac Asimov

#11. that there's some meaning, some willfulness to life. Fairness. Basic decency. Good things happen

Nicola Yoon

#12. So this is how liberty dies," she was saying to herself. "With cheering, and applause.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#13. The truth sometimes reminds me of a city buried in sand. As time passes, the sand piles up even thicker, and occasionally it's blown away and what's below is revealed.

Haruki Murakami

#14. Muhammad had close links with three of the leading hanifs of Mecca. 'Ubaydallah ibn Jahsh was his cousin and Waraqah ibn Nawfal was a cousin of Khadijah: both these men became Christians.

Karen Armstrong

#15. I can write most places. I particularly like writing on trains. Being between places is quite liberating, and looking out of the window, watching a procession of landscapes and random-ish objects, is very good for stories.

Susanna Clarke

#16. I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America.

Amy B. Harris

#17. The Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa....Leonardo had eye trouble....Art couldn't explain it....But now we're safe, since science can explain it. Maybe Milton wrote Paradise Lost because he was blind? And Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony because he was deaf...

William Gaddis

#18. In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#19. We know for certain that we are not made right with God by our good works. We are saved only by grace through faith. And while we're not saved by good works, we are saved for good works.

Craig Groeschel

#20. Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

Jen Lancaster

#21. There are silences harder to take back than words.

James Richardson

#22. The Kazi is searching the words of the Koran, and instructing others:
but if his heart be not steeped in that love, what does it avail, though he be a teacher of men?

Kabir