Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Humphrey Lyttelton Quotes

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!

Humphrey Lyttelton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: May 23, 1921

Topics

You Mouth Look Back Pictures Play

I could see when I was filming '21' that it was going to go a direction I wasn't comfortable with it going.

Jim Sturgess

Direction Go Comfortable See Going

Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.

John Battelle

Hope Fun Media You Sell Who Cares

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

Andrew Forrest

Problem Trying Australia Worst Being

Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do - they're our enemies.

Melvin Van Peebles

Work Friends Minds Realize Enemies

We wanted to preserve as many jobs as possible, so when our sales continued to decline in August 2008, we did about a 5 percent reduction of our global staff. But in order not to cut any more jobs, we froze everybody's pay and put a hiring freeze on.

John Mackey

Possible More Sales Pay Order Cut

To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

John Tesh

You Understand Christmas Ministry

Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with people like Elvis Presley and pop icons like James Dean. Then it exploded in the MTV days. Now, with the Internet, it's instantaneous.

John Varvatos

Music Relationship People Fashion

My memories of Australian cricket are it was an environment of good fun.

Tom Moody

Good Memories Fun Cricket Australian

It's a holistic process for me during a show. I'm always focusing on the technical aspects of my voice. I try to make my voice do what I want. One big thing I do to improve on each show is to listen back to performances on CD while on tour.

Matisyahu

Me Voice Process Back Want Try

To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

David Whyte

Past Control Regret Story Present

My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever, Sonny Liston would go and knock guys out, and that made it all right.

August Wilson

Hero School Parents Problems You Go

My friends have said, 'Wait, you're pretty, and you sing? What do you mean you're interested in science?' I have to just hold my head and go, 'Do you hear yourself?' By no means should you ever limit yourself because of what others think or because of their perceptions of what someone looks like in a certain field.

Auli'i Cravalho

Science Yourself Wait Think Someone