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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity and here has its greatest effect on life an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Music

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
  • 2. India saw from the beginning and even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance she never lost hold of the insight that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
  • 3. There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
  • 2. The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.
  • 3. One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns and that's what we love and that's what we get off on.

3 Anger

  • 1. There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
  • 2. You can survive with anger but you can't live with it forever.
  • 3. Anger elicits anger fear elicits fear no matter how well meaning we may be.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
  • 2. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 3. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

5 Architecture

  • 1. A city building you experience when you walk a suburban building you experience when you drive.
  • 2. What's fascinating about D.C. the exteriors are these elaborate structures this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework and then you go inside and it's crap-looking – apart from the White House which is beautiful.
  • 3. I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
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