Quotes by Authors - Page 101

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard Feynman
The sun - my almighty physician.
Thomas Jefferson
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Patch Adams
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers the winds will blow their freshness into you and the storms their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir
Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us but we've forgotten how to listen.
Michael Roads
If you watch how nature deals with adversity continually renewing itself you can't help but learn.
Bernie Siegel
The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling . . . every crystal every flower a window opening into heaven a mirror reflecting the Creator.
John Muir
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.
Gil Stern
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination but the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat in the active and passive.
Dean William R. Inge
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Henry David Thoreau
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.
Brian Ingalls
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
Rabindranath Tagore
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
Nature is a catchment of sorrows.
Maxine Kumin
Like a gardener I believe that what goes down must come up.
Lynwood L. Giacomini
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
T.S Eliot
Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
G.K. Chesterton
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
Horace Walpole
Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.
Hannah More
She was an aging singer who had to take every note above 'A' with her eyebrows.
Montague Glass
Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.
Anonymous
Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.
Anonymous
The good composer is slowly discovered the bad composer is slowly found out.
Ernest Newman
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire the second half trimming it.
Ethan Mordden
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents.
Vladimir Nabokov
Opera purges men of those hesitations and worries which make it difficult for them to acknowledge their importance to themselves. A good performance of an opera that is provides a language for us to speak of ourselves as we have always known we should speak.
Hamish Swanston
Richard Wagner a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
Mark Twain
When people hear good music it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
Edgar Watson Howe
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G.K. Chesterton
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Jules Combarieu
Music is another planet.
Alphonse Daudet
Mozart's music gives us permission to live.
John Updike
Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.
George Eliot
Handel was a man of the world but Bach was a world of a man.
Arnold Stevenson
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Alistair Cooke
Classic music is th' kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.
Frank McKinney
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Colin Wilson
To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
Gail Sheehy
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fear desire hope still push us on toward the future.
Michel de Montaigne
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Some people change their ways when they see the light others when they feel the heat.
Caroline Schoeder
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
I have the feeling when I write poetry that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. You don't think about whether you're going to get money or fame you just do it.
Doris Lund
The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it with whole heart and single mind.
Gail Sheehy
Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.
Jane Fonda
It is healthier in any case to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.
Alice Walker
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
Dolly Parton
Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.
Hazel Henderson
The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz
Our concern must be to live while we're alive ... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
Alex Haley
If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham in which our selves are determined by the will of others in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.
Nena O'Neil