Top 100 Wagner's Quotes
#1. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Mark Twain
#2. What was infinitely more valuable to Wagner, and what excited his gratitude to even more superlative utterance, was the confidence which Liszt showed in his genius, and without which, it is no exaggeration to say, Wagner's greatest works would probably have remained unwritten.
Richard Wagner
#3. The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.
Gavin Hood
#4. When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.
Kiri Te Kanawa
#5. Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century.
Zubin Mehta
#6. A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#7. When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the '80s - that I had Robert Wagner's pompadour. I said, 'What are you talking about? You mean the guy from 'Hart to Hart?'
Michael Weatherly
#8. I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
Oscar Wilde
#9. One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
Gioachino Rossini
#10. Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.
Robert Wilson
#12. Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water ... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.
Tony Wagner
#13. Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.
Robert Wagner
#14. The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.
Lindsay Wagner
#15. That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are put together, and yet we struggle to make sense of these things somehow. I'm not quite sure why that is; it's something about human nature, I guess.
Kurt Wagner
#16. I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.
Robert Wagner
#17. 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'
Jack Wagner
#18. Sometimes God's sudden turn in your life feels like a detour, but in actuality it is the straightest way to your destiny!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#20. I was raised on T.V. dinners because in those days, they were considered a well-balanced meal. And when I was sick, my mother fed me beef-barley soup and peanut butter sandwiches. That's about it for childhood food memories.
Lindsay Wagner
#21. I no longer believe there's any such thing as losing a woman. A man loses himself as women slip into the future.
Josh Wagner
#22. I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are, but I have to say it's not because of my brushing skills. It's from Crest Whitestrips, and that's the honest truth. I don't believe in going to the dentist and paying for whitening.
Jill Wagner
#23. Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.
John Wagner
#24. It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.
Sune Rose Wagner
#25. I try to stay low-carb and high on lean protein. I'm lucky in that I love chicken and rice; it's one of my favorite meals. I steam some vegetables and top them with olive oil for some flavor.
Ashley Wagner
#26. The ministry found in the corners of one's life should match the ministry that is put on display.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#28. We could never muster the strength to make lasting changes in our lives. That's why we must rely on God's strength to transform us.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#29. When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.
Ashley Wagner
#30. From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.
Richard Wagner
#31. I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.
Sune Rose Wagner
#32. Like what's the point being a health nut by day if you're a coke head at night.
Jane Wagner
#33. wasn't a storm meant to destroy - but it was the perfect storm of God's purifying and refining grace.
Kimberly Wagner
#34. There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell
#35. Wipe your mouth,
there's still a tiny bit of bullshit around your lips.
John Wagner
#36. With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.
Matt Wagner
#37. There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.
Lindsay Wagner
#39. Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time.
Robert Wagner
#40. It's better to have no control and be in the center of God's plan for your life than have total control and be completely lost to your destiny.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#41. When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.
Jane Wagner
#42. Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us.
Robert Wagner
#43. At any moment we can demonstrate our faith by taking action that shows our belief in God's promises!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#44. Let's make movies, not deals. Let's write movies, not scripts.
Paula Wagner
#45. So, he eagerly drove from Basel to Bayreuth before the festival began to watch the last rehearsals of The Ring Cycle. As he watched, it hit him like Odin's bowel movement: the opera was shit.
Dylan Callens
#46. I not only want to understand God's revelations, I want to be changed by them.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#47. What's he doing here anyway? And where is his shirt? I take a quick glance and swallow hard. Never Mind. The shirt can stay gone.
Jami Wagner
#49. Don't forget what people intend to use for harm, God can use for His greater good. Let offenses slide today, and watch how God works!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#50. Without love and kindness life is cold, selfish and uninteresting and leads to distaste for everything. With kindness, the difficult becomes easy, the obscure clear; life assumes a charm and it's miseries are softened. If we knew the power of kindness. we should transform the world into a paradise.
Charles Wagner
#51. When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner - who coined the term "gesamtkunstwerk," or "total art work." That's what was going on in the 19th century, and the 20th century just kept it going.
DJ Spooky
#52. Though your position in the hearts of others may change with circumstance, your position in God's heart never changes. You are His beloved!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#53. I think all kinds of music are being made. No one hears them. There's so much emphasis on a certain kind of music. It's difficult to find music nowadays. You have to make the effort to find it.
Mirel Wagner
#54. A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.
Lindsay Wagner
#55. Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear ... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like ... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow
Matt Wagner
#56. We can position ourselves to receive God's promises, but it will take a lot of stretching, moving, breaking and changing!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#57. One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.
Marsden Wagner
#58. You don't know what it's like! Hyperactive twins! When they turned three, my doctor prescribed Ritalin
I wouldn't dream of giving a drug to my children, but it does help when I take it myself.
Jane Wagner
#59. My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it's absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.
Jane Wagner
#60. The best time to seek God is when it's really hard to find the time because that's when we probably need Him the most.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#61. Come to God with your emptiness, and He will fill you with His best!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#62. I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.
Robert Wagner
#63. Even bullets are nothing compared to the ax murderers in people's eyes.
Pamela Spiro Wagner
#64. Obeying God's laws doesn't make us holy because we are already holy in Christ. Obeying God's laws reveals our love and unleashes God's best!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#65. There's a thrill in going someplace you aren't supposed to go. The place should come down.
John Wagner
#66. Burn God's words into your heart, His thoughts into your mind and His ways into your actions; and you'll have a Spirit-filled life.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#67. God's love grounds me while His mystery confounds me. He is a personal yet all-powerful; in me yet around me; creates me yet dies for me.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#68. I love hockey. That's actually one of my favorite sports.
Ashley Wagner
#69. I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.
Lindsay Wagner
#70. Once I have something that I think I can work with, then I'll go in and make it on the computer. I'll try to recapture the sound that I had in my head when I was thinking about it. That's usually how I do it.
Sune Rose Wagner
#71. It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.
Jane Wagner
#72. One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.
Jane Wagner
#73. People know me as 'Wipeout Girl' or 'Mercury Girl.' They never know my name, and sometimes, maybe that's a good thing.
Jill Wagner
#74. I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I worked in a factory in high school. The poor folk who lay out the hard bread to see a game. That's where my heart lies. The rich don't need heroes.
Leon Wagner
#75. After a pretty amazing year that included more wins than I thought possible, I rang in 2013 by watching the Times Square ball drop on TV ... and then heading directly to bed. It might not have been the typical New Year's Eve for a 21-year-old, but what can I say? It was a training night!
Ashley Wagner
#76. I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.
Robert Wagner
#77. People love to quote that Jesus is love, yet they neglect to mention that He's also King. If you love the King, you will obey Him.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#78. This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write about what goes in my life and what goes on around me. So that's what I chose to do.
Sune Rose Wagner
#79. I don't want my words to be clever or eloquent. I just want them to speak God's heart.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#80. My mom says I have to be more positive, and I say life has to be more positive too or it's just not going to work.
Jane Wagner
#81. I love 'The Vampire Diaries!' I can't help it - it's such a teeny-bopper show, but I think I just like it to stare at the guys.
Ashley Wagner
#82. The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.
Nico Muhly
#83. It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.
Richard Wagner
#84. It's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.
Jane Wagner
#85. I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
D.H. Lawrence
#86. The Holy Spirit builds on the smooth ground of humility. That's why God will tear you down in order to build you back up.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#87. What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch.
Jane Wagner
#88. Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world ...
Chuck Palahniuk
#89. She's sweet on Wagner.
I think she'd die for Beethoven.
she loves the way Puccini lays down a tune,
and Verdi's always creeping from her room.
Electric Light Orchestra
#90. Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.
Jane Wagner
#91. It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.
Robert Wagner
#92. Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and at the same time Wagner has extraordinary control over the effect he achieves.
Daniel Barenboim
#93. My boyfriends love my dad. He's like the perfect in-law to have. In fact, if my boyfriend and I are in a fight, my dad will choose his side. Always! He loves me, but it is tough love with me.
Jill Wagner
#94. It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.
Jane Wagner
#95. We will live an up-and-down Christian life if our faith is based on circumstances and not our faithful God. Stand firm in God's promises!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#96. Lombardi: There's a whole series of beautiful Mozart and Wagner records, in still very pristine condition. But, never a Bible. Until now. May I ask what condition it's in?
Eli: It's beat up. But it will do the job.
Book Of Eli Movie
#97. It's really, really easy to make excuses as to why we can't go to the gym. If you can find time to sit in front of the TV for 45 minutes, you can find time to work out.
Jill Wagner
#98. I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.
I.M. Pei
#99. Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering is not just a nice extra, it is absolutely essential as it makes the woman strong and therefore makes society strong.
Marsden Wagner
#100. Grab onto God's promises with one hand and His faithfulness with the other, ripping apart the natural to reveal the supernatural unseen beneath.
Alisa Hope Wagner
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