M Quotes
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“Mozart’s telling us from up the sky… “Go on a journey,” he’s saying.”
“Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence.”
Source: The Silence In Between
“Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.”
“Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger”
“Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.”
“Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.”
“Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.”
“Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.”
“Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.”
“Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.”
“Mozart's mental grip never loosens; he never abandons himself to any one sense; even at his most ecstatic moments his mind is vigorous, alert, and on the wing. He dives unerringly on to his finest ideas like a bird of prey, and once an idea is seized he soars off again with an undiminished power.”
“Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.”
Source: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Mozart's music gives us permission to live.”
“Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.”
“Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.”
Source: The Infinite Variety of Music
“Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.”
Source: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.”
“Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.”
“Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.”
“Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.”
“Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.”
“Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.”
Source: You learn by living
“Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.”
“Mozasu era convinto che la vita fosse più simile al pachinko, nel quale anche il caso aveva un ruolo importante.”
Source: Pachinko
“Moçambique é essa imagem parada da menina ao sol, com as tranças louras impecavelmente penteadas, perante a criança negra empoeirada, quase nua, esfomeada, num silêncio em que nenhum sabe o que dizer, mirando-se do mesmo lado e dos lados opostos da justiça, do bem e do mal, da sobrevivência.”
Source: Caderno de Memórias Coloniais
“Może i prawda, że postawa, jaką zajmuje każdy z nas wobec tego, co ogromne, co zdaje się nienaruszalne, niewiele mówi. Ale przynajmniej wyjaśnia coś w tak drobnej kwestii, jak pytanie o to, kim, do diabła, jestem.”
“Może jestem idiota, ale nie jestem głupi.”
Source: Forrest Gump
“Możliwe, że obstając odrobinę zbyt uporczywie przy niższości kobiet, profesor nie miał wcale na uwadze niższości kobiet właśnie, ale raczej swoją własną wyższość. To ją właśnie starał się ochronić - a robił to gorączkowo i może z nieco zbyt wielkim naciskiem, ponieważ jego wyższość stanowiła dlań niesłychanie cenny klejnot.”
Source: A Room of One's Own
“Można się na skutek różnych przyczyn wymykać niekiedy swemu wiekowi, lecz, niestety, są to tylko przelotne wycieczki w przeszłość lub przyszłość, drobne, choć niekiedy rozkoszne wagary, z których wnet nas odwołują nieubłagane prawa wieku właściwego.”
Source: Idzie skacząc po górach
“można zamówić rozmowę międzymiastową
chciałbym zamówić rozmowę międzyludzką
ale jedynie agencje towarzyskie podejmują się realizacji
takich połączeń”
“Možda baš u trenutku kada još uvijek nemamo željeno, i s time smo pomireni, naša je čežnja zaokruženi čin. S dosegnutim završava jedno čovjekovo nadanje, i on se već okreće nečemu drugom.”
Source: Istina o sreći
“Možda i nismo lajali na zvezde, ali se za nama digla zvezdana prašina.”
Source: Lajanje na zvezde
“Možda nešto veliko, neponjantno preveliko, neka tiha vizija koju razumijevam sada skoro sveukupno rasapnut, nejasno nesvoj, nejak slučiti siže na shvatljivo i mnogo manje slobodan od njegove sadržine sasvim se maknuti; ja osjetim da više nisam ja. Možda nikada to nisam ni bio, ali ćutim, obuhvaćam, dotičem se spoznaje da i ako ima rastrovljenja, ono malne mora da je u neposrednom prepoznavanju vlastitih niskosti, prihvaćanju krivde pa i kad ne znamo iznaći što to bivanje jest, kud li rastrovljenje, kamoli krivda. I ja se nalazim u sivo-mlačnoj sobici bazdećoj po oporo oštroj bolesti gdje miruješ u svojoj bljedoplavoj haljini sa cvjetovima šarovito kičeroznim; osjet u meni je izvoran, stid je gusto neprobojan, gotovo me je strah dizati pogleda prema tebi, tvojemu licu okrunjenom bljedilom kuhinjskoga prozora. Mjesto tebe, u pod gledam, u pločice, postiđen uopće ti se obraćati, biti kraj tebe makar u predstanju pa i ako sam cijeloga života najviše htio baš ovdje uz tebe se nalaziti.
“Dogodilo se da si umrla. A sve što sam postigao, najviše na prevaru, uvjeravajući ljude da sam ono što nisam, dižući na tome cijeli svoj život, sve se počelo urušavati baš isti dan kad sam dobio vijest o tebi. Osjećao sam se raspadnut. Najniži. Sjećam se samo da nisam više imao snage...”
I sjećam se da si sjedila skoro i ne slušajući tako savršeno smirena, shvaćajući zaista i najniže gmizavce kakav sam ja, kao hrid kojega zapljuskuju tanahni valovi, zeleno-prozirni u odsustvu svjetla, odolijevala si mojim opravdanjima i bijednim mojim nenijama sasvim neusiljeno, sve da nisi pokazivala ni grote ljutnje - tek se suverenosti jedne dosjećam, udaljenosti, dostojne nedodirljivosti, a nakraju i tvoga šapta:
“Ali si se usudio.”
“Čuj me... Nije tako. To ipak nisam ja...”
Source: Veliki pad
“Možda ništa nije potpuno slučajno Možda se neki događaji moraju zbiti, pošto-poto.
Kao da su već zapisani u nekakvoj knjizi sudbine.
Poput munje koja je bljesnula još u davna vremena i za koju se oduvijek znalo gdje i kada će udariti...”
Source: Sauve-moi
“Možda ćeš jednog dana postati spisateljica. Samo nastavi tako. Ako osjetiš I najmanji poziv, slijedi ga. Nemoj nikad zanemarivati svoje osjećaje. Mi se rađamo u umjetnosti. To nam daje veliku moć i imamo čast upravljati njome.”
“Može li netko ukrasti sreću? Ili je i to još jedan unutarnji, pakleni ljudski trik?”
Source: The Book Thief
“Može se reći da, bez obzira na našu različitost, volimo sve ono u čemu nađemo dobro, to jest ono što nas čini boljima, i to je ono što je svakom čovjeku zajedničko.”
Source: Arhitektura duše
“MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.”
“MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.”
“Mpelelezi wa Tume ya Dunia kutoka Israeli Daniel Yehuda Ben-Asher Ebenezer, Mhebrania aliyeishi Givat Ram, Jerusalem, na mke wake mrembo Hadara na mtoto wake mzuri Navah Ebenezer, alikuwa Ukanda wa Gaza siku alipopigiwa simu na Kiongozi wa Kanda ya Asia-Australia ya Tume ya Dunia U Nanda – kutoka Copenhagen kuhusiana na wito wa haraka wa kuonana na Rais wa Tume ya Dunia. Yehuda aliondoka usiku kwenda Yangon, Myama, ambapo alionana na U Nanda na kupewa maelekezo yote ya kikazi aliyotakiwa kuyafuata. Mbali na maelekezo yote ya kikazi aliyotakiwa kuyafuata, Nanda alimkabidhi Yehuda kachero wa Kolonia Santita Mandi Dickson Santana (bila kujua kama Mandi ni kachero wa Kolonia Santita) ili amsindikize mpaka stendi ya mabasi ya Maubin, nje ya Yangon. Baada ya hapo Yehuda alisafiri mpaka Copenhagen ambapo yeye na wenzake walikabidhiwa Operation Devil Cross, ya kung’oa mizizi ya Kolonia Santita duniani kote. Yehuda alifanya kosa kubwa kuonana na kachero wa Kolonia Santita Mandi Santana! Kwa sababu hiyo, sauti na picha ya Yehuda vilichukuliwa, watu wengi walikufa katika miji ya Copenhagen na Mexico City.”
“Mpelelezi wa Tume ya Dunia kutoka Jerusalem, Israeli, Kanali Daniel 'Yehuda Ben-Asher' Ebenezer, Daniel Yehuda, alikuwa komandoo wa kitengo cha mauti na utekaji nyara cha Shirika la Kijasusi la Mossad la Israeli (Kidon) kabla ya kujiunga na Kikosi Maalumu cha Kikomandoo cha Tume ya Dunia (EAC) huko Oslo, kwa makubaliano maalumu kati ya Baraza la Usalama la Umoja wa Mataifa (UNSC) na Shirika la Kijasusi la Mossad la Israeli.”
“Mpenzi. Sikiliza. Magaidi yaliyomuua Marciano yana mtandao dunia nzima na watu wote wanayajua. Yanaitwa Kolonia Santita. Tatizo hata hivyo ni moja: Hakuna mtu amewahi kuthibitisha au kutoa ushuhuda wa uhalifu wao ili watiwe nguvuni. Huendesha maisha yao kibabe na yana kila mbinu ya kukwepa sheria, ndani na nje ya Meksiko. Watu wengi wameuwawa kwa sababu ya Kolonia Santita. Ukileta kidomodomo yanakuua; au yanakupa notisi ya kuhama mji au nchi, ukakae mbali na Meksiko au Mexico City.”
Source: Kolonia Santita
“Mpinga Kristo atakapoona imeshindikana kuwanyamazisha, Eliya na Enock, huku akitamba kwamba yeye ndiye Yesu Kristo ambaye kila mtu ndiye aliyekuwa akimsubiri arudi kwa mara ya pili; na kwamba yeye anatoka katika ukoo wa mfalme Daudi, ili watu waamini kama kweli yeye ndiye Yesu Kristo, ataamuru Eliya na Enock wauwawe hadharani kama wahubiri wengine.
Eliya na Enock watakapouwawa, Mungu atawafufua na watarudi mbinguni wakiwa wameonja mauti kama binadamu mwingine yeyote yule. Hapo mlango wa rehema utakuwa umefungwa. Muda wowote kuanzia hapo Yesu atarudi, kwa mara ya pili, na kwa ajili ya ufufuo wa kwanza.”
“Mpinga Kristo atakuwa Myahudi, kwa sababu Mfalme Daudi alikuwa Myahudi, na Yesu ni Myahudi.”
“MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories.”
“Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fashioned sort. He cared neither for work nor games, but fed his boys well and saw that they did not misbehave. The rest he left to the parents, and did not speculate how much the parents were leaving to him. Amid mutual compliments the boys passed out into a public school, healthy but backward, to receive upon undefended flesh the first blows of the world.”
“Mr. Albert? Mr. Albert?” Harley said.
“Just Albert’s fine,” Albert said tersely.
“Me and Janice are thirsty.”
“I’m sorry, but I don’t have any water on me.” He managed a tight smile and moved on. But now Janice was crying and Harley was pleading.
“We used to live with Mary and she gave us water. But now we have to live with Summer and BeeBee and they said we have to have money.”
“Then I guess you’d better earn some money,” Albert said. He tried to soften it, tried not to sound harsh, but he had a lot on his mind and it came out sounding mean. Now Harley started to cry, too.
“If you’re thirsty, stop crying,” Albert snapped. “What do you think tears are made of?”
Source: Plague