Alan Hovhaness Quotes

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

Alan Hovhaness

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 8, 1911 - June 21, 2000

Topics

NatureGodAlwaysClothingRegarded

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

John Breaux

ProblemsExplainUnitedNecessary

I'm a pretty good chess player.

Joel Kinnaman

GoodChessPrettyPlayerPretty Good

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

Andrew O'Hagan

ArtMuseumArgumentLivingSeeMust

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Robert Klein

GoodChildrenJobSomeoneValues

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

Jean Genet

LiveWorldUniverseBreatheAir

I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

PeopleFeelYouGuiltyI CanKnow

The truth is that when a man has a child, and it's a girl, and he doesn't change as a man, he's not much of a man.

Rod Lurie

ChangeGirlTruthManChildHe

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Michelangelo

NatureSoulStaircaseMy SoulHeaven

You never know what the public is going to respond to or relate to.

Dominic Cooper

YouKnowNeverRespondGoingRelate

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

Christopher Durang

GratefulHandPaidHiredThrilled

We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.

Christian de Duve

ControlThinkWayBirthEthical

If I'm not working on something, I'm eager to work on something because it's so gratifying.

Chris Van Allsburg

WorkSomethingBecauseWorkingEager

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