Evelyn Glennie Quotes

This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.

I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.

I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.

Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

When you're starting out, every line in a show or a commercial is like a huge success.

I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

I am so leading the life that I want and wanted and dreamed of as a kid. I'm trying very hard not to abuse it or take advantage of it.

The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them.

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

You suddenly find yourself somewhere and you wonder, how did I get in this room? That happens to me all the time, every day!

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.