Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: hungarian
  • Birth: May 28, 1923 - June 12, 2006

Topics

MeBookSaidLondonEnglishOnce

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou

GoodHabitChildBookReadingDeep

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

GoodActionInevitableMarkAppears

My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.

Amy Sedaris

KitchenEyePinkReachFallPhone

Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

Stuart Rose

FailureBusinessHateHappyPeople

My brothers bullied me, so I cried a lot as a kid. It was the only defense I had. Telling them to stop wouldn't work. The crying would bring my dad. Dad was my cavalry.

Steven Adams

WorkMeStopKidBringDefense

In some ways, I'm slightly like a single parent, so I need to be able to provide for my family.

Trinny Woodall

FamilyParentNeedSingleAbleLike

Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.

Tristram Stuart

FoodMeThoughtBackWantTalk

A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong.

Mike Thompson

DogBlueYellowYouPartyWrong

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.

Jonathan Nolan

HomeFutureWisdomTimeTravelBook

If you have some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower, you have a heck of a dish that can feed an entire family.

Jose Andres

FamilyGreenYouPotatoesBeans

As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy that must be contained; on the other hand, there are those who see China as a slowly developing democracy that can be embraced.

Dennis C. Blair

DemocracyEnemyComplicatedHandSee

A great script might come my way, and I could be in the middle of music. So, it's a huge choice that I have to make - if I'm going to go do a movie or if I'm going to turn it down - because it could be an opportunity that could send my career through the roof, and you never know.

Christina Milian

MusicOpportunityGreatYouChoice

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