Von Karajan Quotes

#1. The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife. Trin

Douglas Adams

#2. I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell them to give all their money away.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

Herbert Von Karajan

#4. No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

Herbert Von Karajan

#5. Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.

Brigitte Boisselier

#6. He who reaches all his goals has probably not chosen them high enough.

Herbert Von Karajan

#7. Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

Rafael Cruz

#8. I don't think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people think they will master writing overnight, or that they are as good as they will ever be.

Tananarive Due

#9. I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn't have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.

Portia De Rossi

#10. IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE

Charleston Parker

#11. Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

Herbert Von Karajan

#12. I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." (L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

John Eldredge

#13. But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies - about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are - all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. - It is a regular thing

Jane Austen

#14. My mom doesn't post on Facebook, but she'll tell anyone within about the first five minutes of meeting them about my sister and I, in whatever way she can.

Maria Bamford

#15. I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

George Carlin

#16. I was in love with a beautiful blond once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

W.C. Fields

#17. God is greatest physician.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me.

Bernard Cornwell

#19. Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies ... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just
and God is with us.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#20. If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why.

Herbert Von Karajan

#21. Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low

Herbert Von Karajan