Clara Schumann Quotes

German - Musician September 13, 1819 - May 20, 1896

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Clara Schumann

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

Clara Schumann

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

Clara Schumann

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling? Clara Schumann

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

Clara Schumann

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

Clara Schumann

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

Clara Schumann

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

Austrian - Novelist September 13, 1830 - March 12, 1916

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Imaginary evils are incurable.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

J. B. Priestley Quotes

British - Writer September 13, 1894 - August 14, 1984

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. J. B. Priestley

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

J. B. Priestley

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

J. B. Priestley

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

J. B. Priestley

Roald Dahl Quotes

British - Novelist September 13, 1916 - November 25, 1990

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Roald Dahl

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Roald Dahl

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

Roald Dahl

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Roald Dahl

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

Roald Dahl

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Roald Dahl

I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

Roald Dahl