Home / Quotes / Quote by Virgil Thomson

Quote by Virgil Thomson

“I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.”

Author

Virgil Thomson was an influential American composer whose works bridged the gap between classical and popular music. His music had a profound impact on the music world. more

“Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for 14 year olds now to establish friendships with 26 year olds - because they know by the age of 14 all they are ever going to know.”

Knows Years Children Has Beens Age Grows Growing Up Modern Childhood Six Twenties Rate Britain Adulthood Replaced Adolescence Fourteen Premature Six Year Olds Modern Britain

Author:Theodore Dalrymple

“Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.”

Said Self Might Age Social Loss Results Common Example Garden Characteristics Collectives Gambling Self Control Defining Obesity Drunkenness Rudeness Promiscuity Anti Social

Author:Theodore Dalrymple

“The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.”

Space Childhood Stage Periods Time And Space

Book:Confessions of a Mask

Source: Confessions of a Mask

“For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.”

Needs Artist Creativity Creative Ill Serenity Gloom Creative Work Physical Health Ill Health

Author:Yukio Mishima

“Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.”

Men Needs Spirit Felt Christianity Proud

Author:Yukio Mishima

“What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.”

People Thinking Needs Long Together Choices Groups Ought Conversation Solutions Tables Reform Alternatives Entitlement Bipartisan Entitlement Programs Long Conversations

Author:Carly Fiorina

“The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life; it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.”

Ifs Giving Trying Mind Persons Doe Age Form Loses Forever Charm Prime Attempting Live Forever Resisting Vigor

Author:Yukio Mishima

“I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.”

Remember Childhood Fine Our Children Refuse Weather Sundials Fine Weather

Book:Enthusiasms

Source: Enthusiasms

Quote by Virgil Thomson

Author

You May Also Like