Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.
As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart. . . music is spontaneous, impulsive expression. . . its range is without limit. . . forever growing. . . can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.
Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous.
I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.
Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction. . . . Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands.
She wished he’d stop touching her. Not because she didn’t like it but because she liked it far too much. It made her hunger for things that could never be hers. And if someone went hungry for too long, they started to starve. Started to hurt.
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship.
Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.
If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.