Richard Taruskin Quotes

#1. I'm from southern Arelon, Princess," Ahan said, reaching for some more clams. "To us, round is beautiful. Not everyone wants their women to look like starving schoolboys.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. Why are you pestering me, pal? My own evils are enough for me.

Epictetus

#3. I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair.

Stevie Nicks

#4. No one cares about the past any more," he whispered. "They don't see that you can't have a future without a past.

Joe Abercrombie

#5. Loneliness comes with life.

Whitney Houston

#6. Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah].

Ruhollah Khomeini

#7. You know give me choices that are truly different from one another, otherwise they don't regard them as meaningful choices.

Sheena Iyengar

#8. Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

Charles Hodge

#9. Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.

Bill Vaughan

#10. Light and liberty go together.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. You might think a person who brings proof of heaven would be embraced. But even in the presence of a miracle, the human heart will say, 'Why not me?

Mitch Albom

#12. Everybody feels oppressed during a Wagner performance. That is part of the appeal.

Richard Taruskin

#13. I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.

Teresa Heinz

#14. In a land of sand and ruin and gold
There shone one woman, and none but she

Algernon Charles Swinburne