Best 265 quotes in «titles quotes» category

The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third.

The most underrated player in NBA history is Dominique Wilkins. Right behind him is Gary Payton. He never has gotten the respect he deserves. If he doesn't spend the rest of his days in Seattle, I hope he goes someplace where he has a chance to win a title.

The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.

This was the most emotional title of my career. I was the youngest champion, and now I'm the oldest.

The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.

There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire

The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.

This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge.

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

Throughout her career, Ana Barbara has cultivated endless hits; each of her albums was a true musical surprise... this is why today she is honored with the title of Queen of Grupero.

Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

Title deeds generally outlast poems.

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

Titles or awards are not the mark of your success. They are the beginning of a life-long sadhana.

Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers.

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

We don't have anyone with bad haircuts, which is a good thing. Louis Delmas has some pretty nice dreads. He's a Florida boy, so they know how to do it. He gets the title.

To be really successful and win a title with a great club like Liverpool would be 100% one of the greatest things I could ever imagine.

To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.

To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.

Vee said," I'm trying to read the title he's holding…hang on…How to Be a Stalker." "He is not checking out a book with that title." But I wasn't so sure. "It's either that of How to Radiate Sexy Without Trying.

We didn't evolve; God made us. So I just want to explain to you exactly how that happened... Some of the things you'll hear do sound a little bit far-fetched. I admit that. Then I found out that the other name for The Bible is The Gospel, so it is all true. Luckily, the clue is in the title.

To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings who have neither title, nor knowledge, nor virtue. To be governed is to have every operation, every transaction, every movement noted, registered, counted, rated, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, refused, authorized, indorsed, admonished, prevented, reformed, redressed, corrected.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth.

Well, there’s 10 - there’s 10 different - there’s 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out of 10 deal with public institutions. And I’m absolutely in favor of one deals with private institutions, and had I been around, I would have tried to modify that.

Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.

Well, Led Zeppelin IV! That's it really. I'll tell you why the album had no title - because we were so fed up with the reactions to the third album, that people couldn't understand why that record wasn't a direct continuation of the second album. And then people said we were a hype and all, which was the furthest thing from what we were. So we just said, `let's put out an album with no title at all!' That way, either people like it or they don't... but we still got bad reviews!

Why should you be bogged down with my titles and how I thought about it and my poetic reasoning? No, that's not necessary. Either you're going to be drawn into it [or not]. It's a black hole; gravity should pull you in and you should have that experience.

What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.

William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?

With a title like this-There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick-is there really a whole lot left to say? With cunning and quintessential stealth, with artful restraint, with whats fathering and foxy and filled with intelligence and wit, Michael Teig goes about making what seems to be invisible and unspeakable, the most palpable and important matter in the world.

With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can be the same.

You want an Open title by your name. To finally get it, even though it's a Senior Open, I still regard it as a very high honor.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.