Igor Stravinsky Quotes

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Igor Stravinsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: June 17, 1882 - April 6, 1971

Topics

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Some guys lay their fannies out there every night - they play the game at such a high level, and they give so much that, frankly, they don't get credit for it. And I think it's tragic sometimes.

Jerry West

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In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

John Boyd Orr

GovernmentWorldEarthEmpireWhole

With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.

Johannes Stark

ChangeMyselfMindStructureTask

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert.

Angela Duckworth

EffortDirectionGritYouBecome

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Tom Wolfe

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I had a journalist slap me, and it wasn't anyone that I had ever met before. I was at the airport.

Jay Ellis

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I understand a lot of the female needs. I'm not saying I know all of them all the time though.

Jared Leto

TimeSayingKnowUnderstandNeeds

Over the years, I found myself traveling parts of the Lewis and Clark Trail, putting my hands in the river where they set out from St. Louis, viewing the Great Falls of Montana, standing by the same Pacific Ocean they saw with such joy.

Joseph Bruchac

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Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

David Wilkerson

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It makes me happy to work. And it makes me a better mother to be a happy person.

Cheryl Hines

WorkMotherHappyMeBetterPerson

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

Clive Thompson

YouStatisticsStopKnowGlobe

My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.

Ato Essandoh

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