Stephen Hough Quotes

In Britten or Berg, there's a tension between the sweet and the sour, between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the tonal and the atonal, the happy and the sad. That, to me, is what all western art is about - that tension. It's why we want to say anything at all.

Stephen Hough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 22, 1961

Topics

SadArtHappyMeSweetWant

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Jimmy Durante

FunnyWifeSpeechNowBreatheShe

All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.

Andreja Pejic

IdentityGenderMatterDeserveHuman

One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.

Matt Emmons

LoveSomeoneBodyBuildShooting

The French Revolution ends slavery unilaterally. And it does so at this moment when the British, the Spanish, the Portuguese and the Americans - all of the other major powers - keep slavery. And the fact is that it's almost bankrupting the French Colonial Empire.

Tom Reiss

MomentSlaveryRevolutionEmpire

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

Robin Wright

MyselfComfortableJustWouldMade

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

Rutger Hauer

BeautifulSchoolWorldPlaceGoing

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Luigi Pirandello

LifeLiveManValuePlantsMeaning

I'm very generous, and I really want people to see that I am - that's really it.

Millie Bobby Brown

I AmPeopleWantSeeGenerousVery

Republicans think tax filing should be easier for you, not just the well-connected.

Joni Ernst

ThinkYouTaxJustEasierShould

Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.

Drew Barrymore

InternetEqualDoesSodium

Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.

Deepak Chopra

LoveGoalsCompassionCaringWealth

I was never meant to sit at home.

Nita Ambani

HomeNeverSitMeant

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