See, talent is important, and so is hard work. But if you don’t have destiny and good karma on your side, talent cannot do the magic by itself. Himesh Reshammiya Read Quote
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we’ve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world. Alexander McCall Smith Read Quote
Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me. Nat Turner Read Quote
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. Ludwig van Beethoven Read Quote
Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly. So no particular language is in the genes. But what might be in the genes is the ability to acquire language. Steven Pinker Read Quote
I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President. Andrew Jackson Read Quote
If you’re old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Ira Gershwin Read Quote
