Stephen Hough Quotes

In school, my favourite class was when we were given a subject for an essay on which we could freewheel. And poetry: I've always written it and loved the way words interact, in meaning and in sound.

Stephen Hough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WordsSchoolPoetryLovedMeaning

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

NatureWorldAmericaHuman Nature

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.

John Bates Clark

NaturePowerCompetitionActionNow

I always wanted to play a nun, and to play the Reverend Mother was a thrill of a lifetime for me. But, generations back, my family were not churchgoers, which is an unusual thing in the United States.

Melissa Leo

FamilyMotherMeBackPlayAlways

Deep down inside, I'm really a black girl stuck in a Mexican girl's body. But I'm also in touch with my inner white girl and my inner Asian girl. I feel like a little bit of everybody.

Anjelah Johnson

GirlDeepBlackFeelBodyDown

Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all.

Steve Erickson

ArtPeopleNiceHerSomeMany

I don't work for Club For Growth or Heritage.

Stephen Fincher

WorkGrowthHeritageClub

I live in the present moment.

Stacy Keibler

LiveMomentPresentPresent Moment

I went through real darkness, but the ring was my light. That was the one place I felt safe. I could control what happened in the ring. My heart turned icy.

Sugar Ray Leonard

HeartLightDarknessControlPlace

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

LearningThinkWriteFirstRule

I do really like serio-comic movies that treat real difficulties in a real way.

Ron Howard

TreatMoviesWayDifficultiesReal

I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

Misty May-Treanor

GoodMeKnowNervousLittleGoing

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Louis Leakey

StomachSevenContentsExamined

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