Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button
DAN CHOPIN Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes,...
CHOPIN Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
FREDERIC CHOPIN So the storm passed and every one was happy.
KATE CHOPIN In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and sti...
KATE CHOPIN The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penet...
KATE CHOPIN Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...
KATE CHOPIN When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
KATE CHOPIN But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce...
KATE CHOPIN To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac...
KATE CHOPIN I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the...
KATE CHOPIN A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect ...
KATE CHOPIN It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating ...
KATE CHOPIN She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the s...
KATE CHOPIN There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
KATE CHOPIN It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire s...
KATE CHOPIN There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.
DANIEL CHOPIN Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
FREDERIC CHOPIN I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised,...
KATE CHOPIN I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in in...
FREDERIC CHOPIN She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the cou...
KATE CHOPIN Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this wo...
FREDERIC CHOPIN Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!
FREDERIC CHOPIN He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from ...
KATE CHOPIN Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, i...
FREDERIC CHOPIN The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in it...
KATE CHOPIN ...when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wing...
KATE CHOPIN The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
KATE CHOPIN She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.
KATE CHOPIN The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
KATE CHOPIN As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.
FREDERIC CHOPIN Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.
FREDERIC CHOPIN The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its...
KATE CHOPIN And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul . . . the brave soul. The soul...
KATE CHOPIN To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac...
KATE CHOPIN He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from ...
KATE CHOPIN I love you. Good-by--because I love you.
KATE CHOPIN I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.
KATE CHOPIN She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.
KATE CHOPIN She had resolved to never take another step backward.
KATE CHOPIN The morning was full of sunlight and hope.
KATE CHOPIN I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the...
KATE CHOPIN The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies
KATE CHOPIN For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a c...
KATE CHOPIN She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woma...
KATE CHOPIN Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy...
FREDERIC CHOPIN There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be g...
KATE CHOPIN Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions...
KATE CHOPIN “She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna h...
KATE CHOPIN I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of th...
KATE CHOPIN The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a myste...
KATE CHOPIN “She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna ...
KATE CHOPIN I shall create a new world for myself.
FREDERIC CHOPIN Dying of tuberculosis: The earth is suffocating.... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't ...
FREDERIC CHOPIN …there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women b...
KATE CHOPIN Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick pray...
KATE CHOPIN Anthony Miranda: Independent Melodic Velocities.
FREDERIC CHOPIN ...when he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life’s mystery.
KATE CHOPIN He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herse...
KATE CHOPIN Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I o...
FRéDéRIC CHOPIN There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the m...
KATE CHOPIN A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
DAN QUAYLE My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put you...
DAN GABLE I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You ...
DAN MARINO I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
DAN QUAYLE Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so...
DAN RATHER There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has chang...
DAN RATHER We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We ar...
DAN QUAYLE We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
DAN GABLE When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people ...
DAN PINK I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I&...
DAN WHELDON My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island'...
DAN SHECHTMAN One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be ...
DAN QUAYLE Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
DAN KAMINSKY I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by t...
DAN JENKINS The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing m...
DAN JENKINS Vijay Singh won a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 76, which was the highest...
DAN JENKINS Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
DAN PHILLIPS The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star,...
DAN JENKINS I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
DAN QUINN I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
DAN GILBERT I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is a...
DAN HILL When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm ...
DAN HILL I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I do...
DAN HILL When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listen...
DAN HILL Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of ...
DAN HILL The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best w...
DAN HILL My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
DAN HILL One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew ...
DAN HILL I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy...
DAN HILL When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Fra...
DAN HILL With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want hi...
DAN HILL I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortab...
DAN HILL In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our we...
DAN HILL Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kan...
DAN HILL When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop s...
DAN HILL Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress i...
DAN HILL Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
DAN HILL Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a hou...
DAN HILL If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilit...
DAN HILL At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen i...
DAN HILL To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by...
DAN HILL I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h...
DAN HILL I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
DAN HILL I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.
DAN HICKS I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
DAN HICKS I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: t...
DAN HICKS There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.
DAN HICKS About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises t...
DAN HICKS There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to ...
DAN HICKS I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labe...
DAN HICKS I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'...
DAN HICKS My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, an...
DAN HICKS Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stag...
DAN HICKS There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the wor...
DAN HICKS And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time war...
DAN HICKS It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
DAN HICKS When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we ...
DAN HAWKINS We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we'v...
DAN HAWKINS We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
DAN HAWKINS We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We&...
DAN HAWKINS We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone ...
DAN HAWKINS There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs la...
DAN HAWKINS The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set ...
DAN HAWKINS My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played ...
DAN HAWKINS In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at ...
DAN HAWKINS I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It ...
DAN HAWKINS I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
DAN HAWKINS I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the expos...
DAN HAWKINS As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypass...
DAN HAWKINS After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
DAN HAWKINS When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
DAN HAWKINS You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really ...
DAN HAWKINS I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
DAN HAWKINS Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
DAN HAWKINS I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd don...
DAN HAWKINS The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And vie...
DAN HARMON Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels ...
DAN HARMON My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franch...
DAN HARMON I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of...
DAN HARMON TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
DAN HARMON The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people...
DAN HARMON Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're i...
DAN HARMON When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It wa...
DAN HARMON I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our lo...
DAN HARMON If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist ...
DAN HARMON People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi ...
DAN HARMON I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories w...
DAN HARMON Maybe I am just a jerk.
DAN HARMON Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
DAN HARMON I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I'v...
DAN HARMON Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decisio...
DAN HARMON Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing ...
DAN HARMON There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
DAN HARMON I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
DAN HARMON I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critic...
DAN HARMON I really like performing for people.
DAN HARMON The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to...
DAN GLICKMAN I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with ...
DAN GLICKMAN The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and ...
DAN GLICKMAN Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
DAN GLICKMAN Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our i...
DAN GLICKMAN The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting so...
DAN GLICKMAN There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultiv...
DAN GLICKMAN Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
DAN GLICKMAN If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect int...
DAN GLICKMAN I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do i...
DAN GLICKMAN Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Ever...
DAN GILROY I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films wh...
DAN GILROY Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world ...
DAN GILROY 'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses n...
DAN GILROY I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of...
DAN GILROY I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the moun...
DAN GILROY When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using ...
DAN GILROY We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the f...
DAN GILROY Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole...
DAN GILROY News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen,...
DAN GILROY I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael M...
DAN GILROY I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up o...
DAN GILROY All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just ...
DAN GILROY A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
DAN GILROY I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work...
DAN GILROY Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But...
DAN GILROY There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don'...
DAN GILROY The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love ...
DAN GILROY The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it...
DAN GILROY Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make fil...
DAN GILROY I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or ...
DAN GILROY I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with g...
DAN GILROY A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who un...
DAN GILROY In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a ...
DAN GILROY The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain...
DAN GILROY I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
DAN GILBERT The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful...
DAN GILBERT We like scalable companies that we think we can grow - because of our expertise, operational is cons...
DAN GILBERT One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and p...
DAN GILBERT The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff o...
DAN GILBERT I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
DAN GILBERT Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did...
DAN GILBERT A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. Bu...
DAN GILBERT