Top 98 Rubinstein's Quotes

#1. I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #46961
#2. Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #47419
#3. A book being read is a transaction between author & reader, a sharing, giving, taking & a reimagining of the author's offering.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #58886
#4. You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #85799
#5. I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #115076
#6. Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

Akiba Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #136209
#7. Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #149091
#8. Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #226252
#9. A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #229534
#10. The pedal is the soul of the piano.

Anton Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #246042
#11. Kenny, when's the last time you had a physical," Roddy asks.
"What're you...the designated driver of my life?"

"Mad Dog House

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #285580
#12. I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #287408
#13. If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.

Jascha Heifetz

Rubinstein's Quotes #343250
#14. I have never had my face lifted. I prefer to have my spirits lifted. In my opinion, the effect is very nearly the same.

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #366303
#15. In some sense, we're all cavemen - we can't imagine anything more frightening than a ghost or a vampire. But the violation of the principle of causality - that's actually much scarier than a whole herd of ghosts ... or Rubinstein's monsters ... or is that Wallenstein?"
"Frankenstein.

Arkady Strugatsky

Rubinstein's Quotes #368755
#16. Having both a pet and a book ... absolute heaven.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #415243
#17. I'm not a southern lady, I'm from Pennsylvania and we speak sort of correctly there. People identify me that way and they also easily identify me on the street because of my short stature. I get picked out in many ways and no way is a burden.

Zelda Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #418529
#18. My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #430881
#19. Writing novels is really all about making people think, and even more, making them feel things.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #451072
#20. People are always setting conditions for happiness ... I love life without condition.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #484258
#21. Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #492695
#22. When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #492715
#23. Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #512453
#24. A novel need not impart information or inform. It must seduce & snare the reader with feelings & break the reader's heart.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #529659
#25. The result was magnificent ... I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #555091
#26. Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet & a book...absolute heaven.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #572798
#27. The interaction between author and reader is the most intimate in the world of art. The reader's imagination shares and completes the writer's.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #583371
#28. Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.

S. Leonard Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #599158
#29. Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #622413
#30. A writer's refuge is imagination. Therein lies the ability to create a new world and bring order to chaos.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #631324
#31. Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #635794
#32. Whatever art--writing, painting, sculpture, acting, dance, music, or any other--there will be frustration & travails. It's all worth it

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #693543
#33. The dead are silenced and the living are speechless.Who's going to tell their stories if I don't?

Gillian Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #706758
#34. It doesn't matter how shaky a woman's hand is. She can still apply makeup.

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #708927
#35. Though teachers pride themselves on having developed bionic hearing (the phrase "I heard that" is a common part of many teachers' vocabularies), sometimes it is better to conceal such super-human powers.

Gary Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #741867
#36. I can't help from making money, that is all.

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #747325
#37. Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #749491
#38. To be alive, to able to see, to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #755934
#39. A good novel takes the reader into the heart of another person. It lands you smack into the life and times of someone else.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #765011
#40. Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over, just the way I'd love to have it.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #777916
#41. I feel very vulnerable at Halloween. I feel that people who might come to the door might not have candy intentions. I'm a little lady and I can be overcome.

Zelda Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #786090
#42. A writer must learn to be comfortable with buried, shadowy currents deep in the mind, those that form dreams & make hidden connections.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #831262
#43. Good or evil, it doesn't really matter, so long as your novel's character is interesting.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #840255
#44. Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

Anton Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #863690
#45. Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #872435
#46. If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #874307
#47. We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #897873
#48. I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will not breathe. That is a great, great moment.

Arthur Rubinstein

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#49. A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

Garry Kasparov

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#50. I am more than ever convinced that what we eat today is what we are tomorrow.

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #990427
#51. I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth - and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth.

Khalid Abdul Muhammad

Rubinstein's Quotes #995379
#52. A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1058077
#53. I love Arthur Rubinstein, especially his live recordings. I think his Chopin Mazurkas, his interpretation of the Polonaises, and the Concertos of Chopin are just incredible. When I was a child, I wanted to play more and more Chopin because of his recordings.

Rafal Blechacz

Rubinstein's Quotes #1074642
#54. Don't write for the market or for others. Write what you know, love and above all, write what you would love to read.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1139404
#55. You don't have to make any decisions right now," Colleen says. "But I'll tell you this. There's life after marriage."

~Excerpt from "Mad Dog Justice

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1151073
#56. Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1158939
#57. Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1202230
#58. A writer's refuge is imagination and the possibilities it provides.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1202601
#59. The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

Donal Henahan

Rubinstein's Quotes #1212388
#60. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1227845
#61. When people sat in caves, they told stories. It was for sharing, learning, entertaining. Storytelling is as old as we are. It will never die.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1244563
#62. The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work ...

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1277593
#63. If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1290467
#64. What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1310176
#65. Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1311997
#66. A writer's two greatest tools are imagination and perseverance.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1327305
#67. [Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

Donal Henahan

Rubinstein's Quotes #1357565
#68. Creativity is its own reward. A writer must relish those unfathomable moments when plot-lines and characters fall into place. It's the closest thing to magic we know.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1399703
#69. At breakfast, I might pass a Brahms symphony in my head. Then I am called to the phone, and half an hour later I find it's been going on all the time and I'm in the third movement.

Arthur Rubinstein

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#70. Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1422600
#71. That's all the difficulty and the challenge and the battle: to look through this mechanical thing, these bits of glass and metal, at someone. And not lose the sense that this shape is a human being.

Eva Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1427022
#72. Read everything, absolutely everything. There's no such thing as a book that offers nothing.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1429832
#73. A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

Mark Rubinstein

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#74. Cross over children. All are welcome. All welcome. Go into the Light. There is peace and serenity in the Light.

Zelda Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1463410
#75. There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.

David Bronstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1465274
#76. Time, effort & persistence make for the writing of a good novel. There's no such thing as "writer's block." Just reluctance to make the slog

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1467013
#77. The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1505108
#78. For a writer, readers are the best collaborators.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1514265
#79. What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.

Eva Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1546472
#80. I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity.

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1553099
#81. If you write what you love everything else will follow.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1563751
#82. Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1576969
#83. Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

Anton Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1584604
#84. I don't care about the rules of grammar so long as my characters' words sound true to life and bite heavily.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1595352
#85. Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1596621
#86. A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1605388
#87. I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of Akiba Rubinstein, where the entire strategic course was maintained from the first to the last move.

Boris Gelfand

Rubinstein's Quotes #1635974
#88. There are no ugly women, only lazy ones

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1646289
#89. Adjust your makeup to the light in which your wear it.

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1705917
#90. Creative imagination is a mystery. If you let it flow, it will happen, & you won't know how the idea came to you. It will just materialize.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1714371
#91. When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.

Arthur Rubinstein

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#92. A writer has only three tools: language, experience and imagination.

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1776619
#93. It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1794777
#94. I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1812083
#95. Every day can be a pilgrimage, if the goal is a deeper sense of your small role in the revolving world.

Dan Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1829758
#96. Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Arthur Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1835392
#97. All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1875447
#98. Reading is an apprenticeship to writing

Mark Rubinstein

Rubinstein's Quotes #1877098

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