Niccolo Paganini Quotes

At Vienna, one of the audience affirmed publicly that my performance was not surprising, for he had distinctly seen, while I was playing my variations, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow. My resemblance to the devil was a proof of my origin.

Niccolo Paganini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: October 27, 1782 - May 27, 1840

Topics

PerformanceDevilAudiencePlaying

I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.

Jo Brand

GoodMyselfThinkComedyDownPlay

Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

Jerome Charyn

LifeSolitudeMy LifeLandscapeOwn

Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn't make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don't have our physics quite right.

Andrea M. Ghez

BlackUnderstandingPhysicsRight

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

John le Carre

FlyLanguageLiteratureEarlyTeach

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

John Lyly

HopeHeartPastMindShameWhere

I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.

John Sherman Cooper

LifeFailureSadThinkPresidentUs

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

John Stossel

PeopleSome PeopleYearsGetMarket

I don't know how films get made, and I think I'll leave it to other people.

John Tiffany

PeopleThinkKnowLeaveGetMade

I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

FriendFriendsNoneEverybodyFew

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

Dick Bruna

FatherMeEndBecomeBeenWould

Didn't know I had a half sister until I was 12 or 13. So that was interesting.

Debbie Rowe

SisterInterestingKnowHalfUntil

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

Arnold Bennett

NothingMatterAlwaysBehaveHad

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Niccolo Paganini