Olivier Messiaen Quotes

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Olivier Messiaen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: December 10, 1908 - April 27, 1992

Topics

BirdColorsKnowJazzNeverSee

To have real issues to delve into, research-wise, always makes it a lot more satisfying to me. I can pull from a lot of resources and put them into my work and just have as much information as possible.

Joanna Going

WorkMeInformationI CanPossible

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

Andrew Pyper

FearMeHorrorHumanContactBeing

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

AdversityProsperityBitterRemorse

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

Stephen Carter

RootsBlackSkinForgottenBlackness

My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone.

Stefano Pessina

FutureTimeBrainDirectionPresent

TV has taken a crazy turn, especially in the industry of food, where everything is either a competition show or a sort of reality show. We've lost the kind of shows that are, like, 'Here's how you do this,' like the old Julia Child shows.

Johnny Iuzzini

FoodCompetitionChildCrazyReality

I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.

Diego Luna

VoiceThoughtYouFindAlwaysYour

I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker.

David Walliams

VoiceBornWhyKidHimOver

I really dig the scene that's happening now, I really do, because there might be a lot of bad things going on, but if out of all of those bad things ten per cent of the groovy part of it stays, wow... you can't beat that.

Bruce Johnston

YouBadNowOutBeatGoing

By definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

Tibor Kalman

YouSomethingMakeHatesDefinition

Kettlebells are the best for everything. We do snatches and swings with them for explosiveness and hamstring and lower back strength, and we'll also throw them into conditioning circuits where I'll do a burpee holding the kettlebells and transition into a 2-handed snatch.

Tim Kennedy

StrengthBestBackTransitionWhere

The past is what the past is.

Richard Sherman

MeThoughtBadTeammatesSayKind

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