Ritardando Quotes

#1. Clive was losing sensation in his feet, and as he stamped them the rhythm gave him back the ten note falling figure, ritardando, a cor anglais, and rising softly against it, contrapuntally, cellos in mirror image. Her face in it. The end.

Ian McEwan

#2. Reality is not made of dreams, until you make them real.

Soar

#3. Death is not enough for such men. We must add mechanics

Andrei Codrescu

#4. The worst is over, the worst is yet to come

Carolyn Forche

#5. You do not need to solve problems, you just need to outgrow them.

Debasish Mridha

#6. I said the export benefit should go to all the farmers in the country through the mills spread across the country, in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. Now what happens? This benefit goes to those mills or export houses in Mumbai. Or in Chennai or in Bangalore.

K. V. Thomas

#7. Students present themselves ... like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

John Updike

#8. But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more, until my heart is strangled and broken.

A.G. Howard

#9. Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Orson Scott Card