Quotes About Violas

#1. I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.

Jean Sibelius

#2. Or, if he's feeling more poetic, it might be Now, Frobisher, the clarinet is the concubine, the violas are yew trees in the cemetery, the clavichord is the moon, so ... let the east wind blow that A minor chord, sixteenth bar onwards.

David Mitchell

#3. I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

Twyla Tharp

#4. While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.

Bear McCreary

#5. Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

Adam Johnson

#6. A lot of people don't even know there was a Journey before Steve Perry.

Jonathan Cain

#7. The study of jurisprudence, by which I must earn my bread, has so withered and frozen the flowers of my fancy that they will never again seek the light. (To his Mother, November 11, 1829)

Robert Schumann

#8. What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, from which all thinking must start; and thinking, which starts from this fact, is in turn itself but another form of life.

William Barrett

#9. You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

Rich Galen

#10. Our home is gone, but come home,

Brent Weeks

#11. What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.

Billy Graham

#12. The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.

Jessie J.

#14. You're not mutation, you are evolution.

Keith R.A. DeCandido