FastSaying

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.


Alfred Jarry

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music...
GREIL MARCUS Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music...
GREIL MARCUS Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But ...
DAME ALICE MARKOVA The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.
EMANUEL AX In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a sma...
GUSTAV MAHLER Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience memb...
GEORGE CARLIN When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause.
MARTY RUBIN It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce...
ROBERT COLLIER Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce...
ROBERT COLLIER I think that he was amazingly raw at the time. He's such an incredible musician that he's able to pu...
PATTIE BOYD It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience a...
CHARLES HAZLEWOOD When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you�...
L. RON HUBBARD When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you�...
L. RON HUBBARD Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept r...
ROBERT FRIPP Anything short of excellence is merely an excuse.
FAISAL KHOSA Is there an audience for it? I don't know. I don't think it's the audience who bought it originally....
HERB ALPERT Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake
ROBERT MOSES For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and heari...
RANDY WEST Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a...
LISA KLEYPAS As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar p...
STEVE EARLE Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its ki...
RALPH WALDO TRINE My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes wi...
DAVID ANTIN A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations...
HANS HAACKE It's strange how the worst day of your life often starts just like any other. You might even complai...
JOANNA CANNON This collaboration will result in the creation of the ultimate online destination for any Latin musi...
ENRIQUE FERNANDEZ I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to b...
TYLER FARR They've kind of surrounded him by some old friends of the audience, ... so that the audience will fe...
BETTY WHITE I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to ...
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Its origins are ancient but it burgeons with brash modernity, and it lounges upon its delectable sho...
JAN MORRIS Just walking along Shaftesbury Avenue gave me such a buzz - it still does - and communicating with a...
LESLEY GARRETT Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the i...
PAT BURNS Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
EMANUEL AX I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel tha...
YO-YO MA We have a goal that with every performance. When the audience leaves, we want each person to leave a...
ALBERT MAZIBUKO I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built ...
STEVEN PINKER The Force, the Force, the Force! Everything the Force.
CHUCK WENDIG The Force is with me, and I am one with the Force,” Chirrut told Althin. “And I fear nothing, fo...
GREG RUCKA I am one with the Force,” he said to himself and to the universe at once.
GREG RUCKA One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong.
GREG RUCKA Audience, can you think of any other ways you might feel before you get married? What. Someone in th...
BILL CULLEN Audience, can you think of any other ways you might feel before you get married?... What?... Someone...
BILL CULLEN I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL John sets it for Gerry [Gerald Finley, the baritone singing Oppenheimer] and full orchestra as a per...
PETER SELLARS But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait t...
JODI PICOULT I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
PATRICK O'BRIAN I truly think a long career is to keep the audience guessing and not being able to be boxed, and for...
DAVID OYELOWO I think we will achieve a real sense of drama with the music. The audience will feel as though they ...
GEORGE MARTIN A nightmare might force you awakened.
The tough life might force you awakened.
TOBA BETA You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. An...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I don't think you should be able to use that as an excuse. I think every team has to go through that...
ADAM SULLIVAN Of course, it could influence the Olympics. We think the audience comes to see the stars and Jaromir...
ALOIS HADAMCZIK A new Fed chairman is an unknown and as such offers nervous investors an excuse to sell.
KEN TOWER It seemed as though prior to all of the consolidation of the networks and everything, it was easier ...
JANE CURTIN They are professional entertainers, they love the music, they love the applause, they love the spotl...
GARY LASHINSKY Institutions are the thundering herd. That's where the real vulnerability comes in. Money is already...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important t...
PATRICK STUMP To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of makin...
ANDREA BOCELLI And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practical...
RICK YANCEY When “Here Comes the Sun” started, what happened? No, the sun didn’t come out, but Mom opened ...
MARIA SEMPLE An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek a...
JOHN UPDIKE Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
GLEN COOK I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with...
TROYE SIVAN The trouble with the morning is that it always comes at such an ungodly hour
DOMINIC CLEARY When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was ...
DAVID BOIES I think we were among the first positive examples of country music for the punk rock audience,
JOHN DOE The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in ...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other,...
IMMANUEL KANT The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience...
DAVID STEINBERG It's like, the note comes out and the reward comes back, ... When you soothe somebody with music, yo...
LOU STYLES I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound t...
TOM PETTY There's a moment that comes and I think that it comes for anyone who loves their job and what they d...
DENNIS QUAID It's spiritual music. It hits people in a place that a lot of music doesn't, and I think the audienc...
ROBERT KATZ People with negative frame of mind take obstacle & difficulties as curse & look for an excuse.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until ...
GLEN HANSARD I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.
ADAM LAMBERT Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises fo...
EDGAR WRIGHT There is a downside to casual sex: Sometimes it stops being casual. People develop a desire for some...
NEIL STRAUSS If you force the trail to emerge and turn with your every command, then most likely it will only bec...
BRYAN HUFALAR There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you th...
ROBERT HEINLEIN There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you th...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL There's such a great demand for sports. And the opportunity with the Super Bowl is one in which you'...
ED ERHARDT Alejandro's fans might not necessarily be familiar with Marc Anthony's music, but I think that makes...
JUAN ELIAS All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. T...
CHARLES OSGOOD Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great ...
BRYAN WHITE An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than t...
AMIT KALANTRI When we watch cartoons, much of the background music is classical, such as the William Tell Overture...
JASON PALMER I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large...
ANDY GARCIA What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
GERALD BARZAN There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
SAMUEL BARBER Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow ...
TRYON EDWARDS You can't really be super conservative and continue to keep your audience, but at least the audi...
MEGAN MULLALLY Power, of course. The primitive fear of being controlled. It does not matter whether it is an invasi...
WOLE SOYINKA I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that...
NICOLAS CAGE I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts ...
QUESTLOVE With his two hands he props up his jaw. He passes without a word. Perhaps he does not see me. One of...
SAMUEL BECKETT

More Alfred Jarry

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
ALFRED JARRY It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster...
ALFRED JARRY We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
ALFRED JARRY It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up ...
ALFRED JARRY You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
ALFRED JARRY Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
ALFRED JARRY God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
ALFRED JARRY To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be ...
ALFRED JARRY We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the ...
ALFRED JARRY We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
ALFRED JARRY It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original...
ALFRED JARRY It is conventional to call ''monster'' any blending of dissonant elements. I call ''monster'' every ...
ALFRED JARRY God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
ALFRED JARRY To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be ...
ALFRED JARRY It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom
ALFRED JARRY The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friend...
ALFRED JARRY The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create ne...
ALFRED JARRY That's a beautiful speech, but nobody's listening. Let's go.
ALFRED JARRY We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
ALFRED JARRY La volonté est ce qui lâche en dernier, bien après le cœur.
NICOLAS JARRY Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 More things are wrought by prayer Than this...
ALFRED For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey pl...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
ALFRED MOLINA When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
ALFRED NOBEL No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ...
ALFRED ADLER Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
ALFRED TENNYSON I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were...
ALFRED MOLINA My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands ...
ALFRED JODL Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions.
ALFRED AMOROSO Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to...
ALFRED POLGAR It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back...
ALFRED TORRIE The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse whil...
ALFRED BUNN The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
ALFRED SHEINWOLD Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON ... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic)...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
ALFRED TENNYSON If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people s...
ALFRED TENNYSON Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED TENNYSON What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
ALFRED MERCIER It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathe...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carryin...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagon...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically Engli...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
ALFRED NOBEL The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for the...
ALFRED SUTRO Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is th...
ALFRED NOBEL Man know much more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t...
ALFRED ADLER The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationshi...
ALFRED ADLER I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any ho...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
ALFRED GLOSSBRENNER Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incom...
ALFRED ADLER To be human means to feel inferior.
ALFRED ADLER We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER Man knows more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
ALFRED ADLER There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as ...
ALFRED ADLER Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
ALFRED NOBEL Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
ALFRED AUSTIN There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with ...
ALFRED ADLER It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up...
ALFRED DOMETT Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
--ALFRED MARSHALL This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon...
ALFRED ADLER It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled ...
ALFRED ADLER In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who s...
ALFRED ADLER It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incom...
ALFRED ADLER War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetra...
ALFRED ADLER It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relations...
ALFRED ADLER The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of t...
ALFRED ADLER What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ma...
ALFRED ADLER Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who...
ALFRED ADLER Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning
ALFRED ADLER A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
ALFRED ADLER What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ma...
ALFRED ADLER There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
ALFRED ADLER It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, an...
ALFRED ADLER I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assem...
ALFRED BUNN If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfil...
ALFRED ADLER Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. -Alfred Montapert.
ALFRED MONTAPERT In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a sym...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI …a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosop...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) W...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI …the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for wor...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a v...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.]
ALFRED AUSTIN The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
ALFRED BRENDEL The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to c...
ALFRED ADLER To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its o...
ALFRED ADLER There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by...
ALFRED KASTLER On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilize...
ALFRED NOBEL Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
ALFRED SCHNITTKE Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevi...
ALFRED ADLER For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, ...
ALFRED NOBEL By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's bir...
ALFRED ENOCH Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to sit...
ALFRED ADLER Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
ALFRED ADLER One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and dif...
ALFRED NOBEL Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
ALFRED MARSHALL In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that sat...
ALFRED MARSHALL In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a no...
ALFRED MARSHALL The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such c...
ALFRED MARSHALL Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of de...
ALFRED MARSHALL It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all thing...
ALFRED MARSHALL Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading s...
ALFRED MARSHALL And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hard...
ALFRED MARSHALL But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money...
ALFRED MARSHALL Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
ALFRED MARSHALL Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at lea...
ALFRED MARSHALL The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from ...
ALFRED MARSHALL All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indir...
ALFRED MARSHALL Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benef...
ALFRED MARSHALL All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
ALFRED MARSHALL In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by...
ALFRED MARSHALL Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
ALFRED MARSHALL One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the...
ALFRED AUSTIN Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
ALFRED AUSTIN Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
ALFRED AUSTIN Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
ALFRED AUSTIN The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden i...
ALFRED AUSTIN I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealis...
ALFRED NOBEL I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course...
ALFRED MOLINA When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the struc...
ALFRED HERSHEY O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight...
ALFRED TENNYSON The quiet sense of something lost
ALFRED TENNYSON I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The ...
ALFRED HAYES It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandabl...
ALFRED EINSTEIN Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ In the American Grain: Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ As I hold the future well-being of photography very dear I must see to it that these forces which mi...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with phot...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expr...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ I do not object to retouching, dodging. or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the na...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
ALFRED SMITH Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, y...
ALFRED SMITH The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
ALFRED SMITH It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with wh...
ALFRED SMITH All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
ALFRED SMITH No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to s...
ALFRED SMITH Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
ALFRED SLOAN The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. T...
ALFRED SLOAN If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
ALFRED SLOAN In any organization men would move up from the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition an...
ALFRED SLOAN Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force ...
ALFRED SLOAN A car for every purse and purpose.
ALFRED SLOAN There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obsta...
ALFRED SLOAN Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so...
ALFRED SLOAN If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this m...
ALFRED SLOAN The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
ALFRED SISLEY I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
ALFRED SISLEY Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
ALFRED SISLEY Our family lived in Vienna, Austria. after the war and apart from an accordion, there was no other m...
ALFRED SCHNITTKE