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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood. — Lloyd Alexander

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have. — Cormac McCarthy

Life is all about experiencing the full range of emotions. — Jonathan Sadowski

In matters of love, one loves and the other decides. — Hanna Abi Akl

What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain. — Tim McGraw

It seems only yesterday I used to believe
there was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I could shine. — Billy Collins

I've traveled the world in one of the best groups ever. I'm 42. — Tionne Watkins

To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel. — Maurice Ravel

Conflict is like cancer; early detection increases the possibility of a healthy outcome. — John C. Maxwell

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces. — Maurice Ravel

Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess! — Maurice Ravel

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? — Maurice Ravel

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. — Joan Didion

He let out a short laugh. You sound like Sherlock Holmes. You gonna pull out a magnifying glass? A pipe, maybe? — James Dashner

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction. — Joseph Hall

Tell me that not everything I wrote was bad. — Maurice Ravel

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. — Maurice Ravel

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The only love affair I have ever had was with music. — Maurice Ravel

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature? — Maurice Ravel

I begin by considering an effect. — Maurice Ravel

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music. — Maurice Ravel

I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played. — Maurice Ravel

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. — Maurice Ravel

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.' — Oswald Chambers

I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. — Barry Bonds

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. — Maurice Ravel