I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

I can conduct better than I count.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

There is a shadow on every page.

It's hot as hell as can be.

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

During the rests - pray.

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

Beauty is less important than quality.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless of their own and other tribes when abandoned.

I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I'm always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren't always in a script.

I think I can allow myself one child - and from then on, I think I would have to adopt. It makes sense not to add to the population problem.

I am privileged to count many Muslims among my friends - some are amongst my closest friends.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

What I very much admire about the Versace maison, and what I am still trying to learn to do myself as I am still young, is that from day one until today, Versace is the peak of sexy but never crosses that red line into the vulgar.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

If i was a dove i wud daily bring you peace. A sheep I would bring you miracles an angel I would bring you love but since Im only human I can only wish you the best. Good afternoon.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

Two hours onstage... that's the best part because it makes it all worth it.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Marriage equality changed life for people.

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

The first time you go on holiday is the test of a relationship, when you really find out if you're compatible or not. You find out what's annoying about that person, and whether or not you're willing to put up with that because you love them and you don't want to be alone.

We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.