Quotes About Masterworks

#1. To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.

Franz Liszt

#3. Empirical research has shown that quality tends to be the consequence of quantity when it comes to creativity ... Those who produce more masterworks also produce more rubbish.

Dean Keith Simonton

#4. To generate a handful of masterworks, Mozart composed more than 600 pieces before his death at thirty-five, Beethoven produced 650 in his lifetime, and Bach wrote over a thousand.

Adam M. Grant

#5. My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

Tabrett Bethell

#6. Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.

Bill Parcells

#7. I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.

James Nesbitt

#8. Listening to intuition is similar to watching wind wiggle a pond. Allow the ripples to move you where you need to be.

Soul Dancer

#9. The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.

Napoleon Hill

#10. A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

Stephen King

#11. Dex: You're my wife. I love you.
Rosarita: Sometimes love isn't enough.

Jackie Collins

#12. Lords of blue and Lords of gold,
Lords of wind and waters wild,
Lords of time that's growing old,
When will come the season mild?
When will come blue Madoc's child?

Madeleine L'Engle

#13. I had the weirdest dream...

Riley Grigg

#14. Most adults suffer from difficulties in achieving the truth, because social and educational conditionings have blocked the mind from accessing it. In psychology, this process is called crystallization, and explains the inability to change over the years.

Daniel Marques

#15. Go back so far there is another language
go back far enough the language
is no longer personal.

Adrienne Rich

#16. Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected.

John Grisham