John Tavener Quotes

We seem to have lost our contact with the primordial: the idea of - call it divine revelation as opposed to something that's learned by the human intellect - something that, if you lay yourself completely open, and you just open your heart completely, something will actually come into it.

John Tavener

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 28, 1944 - November 12, 2013

Topics

HeartYourselfYouLostWillHuman

It was a terrible blow that was dealt when I was fired from 'Saturday Night Live', but I have to say that a few doors opened right away. Movie roles started to roll in, and pretty soon, I was over it.

Joan Cusack

LiveNightSaturdayDoorsSayRight

I kind of go back and forth about marriage and kids. I feel like, if it's an organic way for me and the right time in my life, then, yeah.

Jessica Biel

LifeMarriageTimeMeFeelMy Life

Anybody who's lived in the ghetto knows that you don't move during the daytime. Here's why: You don't want anyone to know you're leaving, and you don't want anyone knowing where you're going.

Tracy Morgan

YouGhettoKnowWantLeavingWhy

My parents live there, and I was born and raised in Scotland. I lived there for the first 11 years of my life, until my parents decided to take our family to France where we lived for a couple of years. We then moved back to Scotland, and that is where I feel most home - where I come back to myself, and I love more than I can say.

Rose Leslie

LifeFamilyLoveHomeLiveMyself

If you are not diverse, you are saying, 'I don't want to be successful.'

Mindy Grossman

SayingYouWantSuccessfulDiverse

Privacy is not a luxury in America: it is a right - one that we need to defend in the digital realm as much as in the physical realm.

Chelsea Manning

AmericaLuxuryPrivacyDigitalNeed

Sage is cleansing and sacred.

Pink

SacredSageCleansing

I believe investigative agencies should be run in an autonomous manner, and there shouldn't be any interference from the government's side.

Piyush Goyal

GovernmentBelieveRunI BelieveAny

The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.

Philip Kaufman

TruthTruth IsThingsKindsDrawn

I keep making the music I do because I feel very purposeful about making things that would be helpful or quell some loneliness in people. I really needed that when I listened to music growing up and even now, so I don't mind that sense of duty.

Perfume Genius

MusicLonelinessPeopleMindFeel

It takes a special kind of family to bathe together in their 40s.

Paula Pell

FamilyTogetherKindSpecialTakes

The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

Richard Neal

TodayTogetherPeopleComplicated

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