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- The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!
- Arthur Schnabel (1882 - 1951), in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
- Ah! the clock is always slow;
It is later than you think. - Robert Service (1874 - 1958), Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)
- Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
- Bill Shankly, In Sunday Times (UK) Oct. 4 1981
- Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Candida (1898) act 1
- All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Doctor's Dilemma (1911) act 1
- Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 9
- Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Major Barbara (1907) act 2
- There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) act 1
- Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) act 3
- There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
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