E. S. Carter Quotes
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.
Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.
Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.
Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.
Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing
Another door swung open, and another guard appeared, this time with Gabrielle, who wore a black catsuit and rappelling harness.
The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.
There is no other even moderately equal abuse than the murder of little baby girls - nothing else compares with that, in horror.
When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.
When I ran, I didn't have any money. Now, it requires raising hundreds of millions of dollars just to get the nomination, and I don't care to be involved in that process.
So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.
I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.
We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
I thought then and I think now that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust and I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.
The time for crying with your girlfriends about a broken heart is over chocolate ice cream and chick flicks—not stun guns and bulletproof vests.
Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.
We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
Tell me Zach.” I don’t know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. “And don’t lie to me.
In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him.
He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.
I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.
Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.
I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically.
People spend their lives searching for their one true love, their other half. I found mine in college, dancing in a fraternity house driveway. Lucky for me, she found me right back.
Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.
Bonar Law never led his Party. He was always looking over his shoulder to see if he was being followed.
Security is a big concern on the social web. People are going to try to destroy social media just like they are trying to breach data in other areas.
