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Evelyn Glennie Quotes

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

Evelyn Glennie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: July 19, 1965

Topics

Mind Amazing Society Body Choice

Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of directly taxing persons and property within any State through a majority made up from the other States.

Melville Fuller

Power Government Constitution Nothing

The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.

John Updike

Farm House Visualize Fiction Lived

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

Steve Prefontaine

People End Run Race More See

If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead.

Trisha Yearwood

Start Think Trying Dead Radio Get

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Tom Wilkinson

Grateful Happy Say Be Grateful Bits

I can easily get a gold in the 48 kg. category, but 51 kg., it's difficult because other boxers may have a height advantage.

Mary Kom

Gold I Can Height Difficult May Get

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

Lord Dunsany

Man Night Small Wonders Full Large

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Lord Byron

Friend Friends You Never Anything

My grandpa was a preacher.

Dolly Parton

Preacher Grandpa

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

Douglas Dunn

Poet Poem Interfere Baggage Cultural

I live way below my means.

Chris Rock

Live Way Means Below

You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low Country' that Steven Frears shot.

Woody Harrelson

Love Hope Great Loved You Country