Top 23 Quotes About Elgar
#1. You're somethin' else, Hel. Know that? Dodged the sea toad, got rescued off that damned comet, bisected ol' Bron Elgar like a bagel out there on Cravat ... How the hell you get away from those damn fish down in the Glory Hole? Man, you got more lives than a New York alleycat.
Julian May
#2. I went to give this back to the - the lady. She wasn't there, but you left Elgar."
I snatched the pieces from Jurij's hands. "You went back to the shack? What were you going to say? 'Sorry we were spying on you pretending you were a monster, thanks for the dirty old rag?
Amy McNulty
#3. There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared.
Ronnie Barker
#4. Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.
Thomas Beecham
#5. Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.
Anthony Burgess
#6. In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli. Made a musical notation of their snores. Elgar is to be played by a bass tuba, Ayrs a bassoon.
David Mitchell
#7. Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.
Ben Aaronovitch
#8. The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station.
(on Elgar)
Thomas Beecham
#9. It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.
Edward Elgar
#10. English music is white - it evades everything.
Edward Elgar
#11. I always said God was against art and I still believe it.
Edward Elgar
#12. The Spirit of God is not something less than God, - it is God.
Edward Elgar
#13. Every new genetically engineered plant is a unique event in nature, bringing its own set of genetic contingencies. This means that the reliability or safety of one genetically modified plant doesn't necessarily guarantee the reliability or safety of the next.
Michael Pollan
#14. Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
#15. We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.
Trai Byers
#16. The living room seemed to be where no living ever actually occurred.
Alice Sebold
#17. The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.
Edward Elgar
#18. My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
Edward Elgar
#20. Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.
Robert McFarlane
#21. Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds. That's going to be the downfall of music, if anything. Nobody enjoys one thing anymore.
DJ Quik
#22. We are all fundamentally equal souls, and if you make a zillion dollars, you're not any better than anybody else spiritually. You're still an equal soul.
David Brooks
#23. If you call the day after, you're maybe a bit desperate because, since the first day is out of the question, the second day is really the first day, so you're calling on the first day. If they're going to call, people call on the third day.
Nicci French
