Quotes About Samuel Barber

#1. How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society,

Samuel Barber

#2. I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

Samuel Barber

#3. Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

J. William Fulbright

#4. Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?

Regina Doman

#5. Art is craft, not inspiration.

Stephen Sondheim

#6. We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#7. I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.

Aimee Mann

#8. He is a lyric poet ... aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

Samuel Barber

#9. So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

Samuel Foote

#10. I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat.

Moby

#11. Micah 7:19 ... "You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." The picture is of God vigorously disposing of our sins by hurling them overboard. He doesn't just drop them over the side; He hurls them ...

Jerry Bridges

#12. Then tell me who Ronald McDonald is."
"Very soon I'll have to apologize for calling you an idiot again.

Anthony Marra

#13. I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

Samuel Barber

#14. I like my fruitcake like I like my men. I like them to have tasty nuts, usually cum in a box, and last forever.

Mamrie Hart

#15. I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

Samuel Barber

#16. The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.

David Duchovny

#17. Momma always said that a true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise, she's giving away her power and her crown. My

Carolyn Brown

#18. I'll know I'm famous when I have five Ferraris, seven houses, Cameron Diaz on my arm and a little man following me with a huge bag of money.

Brian McFadden

#19. The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.

David Mitchell