Transfigured Song Quotes

#1. But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#2. Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

Jamie Wyeth

#3. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#4. Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.

Henry Rollins

#5. Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.

Katharina Zell

#8. I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not important, and the ones that really mattered were those I remembered. Now I write them all down.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity into a compelling, emotionally gripping tale that is at once wrenching and soulful.

Eliot Pattison

#10. As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

Tom Waits

#11. Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve

Tariq Ramadan

#12. Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#13. The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.

Ma Jian