Quotes
All Aliens, which I know so far from films, is outwardly not my thing: neither the small green males with the antennas still such, which gestelzt abstruse pointed ears, ulcers in the face or otherwise amusing appearance has.
Our inmost yearning, our deep desire for harmony in an extra-musical, transcendental sense feels affirmed, confirmed and calmed by music, and in this sense music seems to me a message a lofty ethical message that brings good tidings to the ethical part of our being from the mysteries of the world of sound.
Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.
Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me of a mysterious world beyond, which moved my heart deeply and eloquently intimated its transcendental nature.
For the works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.
By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.
I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare.
I was born and bred in a distant region that cosmographers call Finlandia, a beautiful and far-flung country unknown to most educated people.
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
And thus I'll once repeat my suggestions for the new generation. They are humanness, tolerance and beautiful superfluousness.
A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.
In the year of our lord 1376 a parliament was held at London by command of the king, which began about the octave of St. George and lasted almost continuously for nine weeks. There the king urgently demanded a subsidy from the common people.
For who would ever have believed that such rustics, and most inferior ones at that, would dare (not in crowds but individually) to enter the chamber of the king and of his mother with their filthy sticks; and undeterred by any of the soldiers, to stroke and lay their uncouth and sordid hands on the beards of several most noble knights.
J. T. Walsh
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
J. T. Walsh
There was no auditioning - just an offer. Which in television is dangerous.
J. T. Walsh