Alan Hovhaness Quotes

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

Alan Hovhaness

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodTalentMeLivingWayBecome

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

Joel Osteen

SayingEnoughLongHarvestSayReap

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

John Muir

FoodManAnimalEatingEarthLiving

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

Amy Carter

HateEvilThinkNecessaryDealing

Who I was back then, when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' is so different from who I am now. Coming off Laguna, being 19 years old, and thrown into this odd, ridiculous spotlight, wasn't for me. There have always been haters, and people don't want to give you a chance or the benefit of the doubt, but this show gave me an opportunity.

Stephen Colletti

OpportunityTreeI AmPeopleMeYou

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

Tracy McGrady

NightToughKidsEveryEvery Night

WWE didn't want RVD to get over when I was there. They tried so much to... to... not get me... to... to... keep me from that. They didn't understand why the fans liked me, because I don't fit the cookie cutter formula, because I am a non-conformist.

Rob Van Dam

I AmMeWantWhyUnderstandOver

When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.

Robin Williams

FunnyTimeManThoughtDarkHim

There's lots of prejudice, but if you examine yourself, you can make It. Of course, this doesn't make me too popular with some quarters in the women s movement.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

WomenYourselfMeYouPrejudice

Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.

Rush Limbaugh

MeTalkingKnowSometimesEverything

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.

Michael Leunig

TechnologyOpportunityPeaceHands

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

Joyce Carol Oates

GreatI AmMeBetterPersonDetroit

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

Diane Arbus

LoveUnderstandingMisunderstanding

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