Score Quotes - Page 33

• When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.

  Simon Van Booy

  Beautiful, Children, Father

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.27, Oneworld Publications

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• The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.

  Virginia Postrel

  Smart, Thinking, Skills

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• I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance.

  Heinrich Neuhaus

  Order, Important, Trying

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• Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.

  Francois Rabelais

  Death, Daughter, Mother

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• People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand what that means. It is also only a theory that the world goes round the Sun - it's just a theory for which there is an immense amount of evidence. There are many scientific theories that are in doubt. Even within evolution, there is some room for controversy. But that we are cousins of apes and jackals and starfish, let's say, that is a fact in the ordinary sense of the word.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cousin, Mean, People

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• And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,
  Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay
  And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:
  I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

  William Butler Yeats

  Women, Phoenix, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.127, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

  James Russell Lowell

  Boston, Rooms, Newspapers

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.397

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• So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

  James Joyce

  Book, Reading, Dublin

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.851, Delphi Classics

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• Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace.

  Florence King

  Sex, Mean, Race

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• Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt as a black man like you to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had because there, but for the grace of God go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Men, Gpa

  "Around The World" with Michael Holmes and Suzanne Malveaux, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2013.

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• The rain of matter upon sense
  Destroys me momently. The score:
  There comes what will come.

  Yvor Winters

  Rain, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Yvor Winters (1960). “Collected poems”

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• I was scared to death, but I made fear score points for me.  Fear is right behind me, fear is six inches off my back, that's where fear is.  I can feel its presence.  But it's not going to catch me... I'm going to take fear and use it to my advantage.

  Bruce Jenner

  Motivational, Sports, Fear

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• Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight, excitement, and even controversy which are hard to share with non mathematicians. In our small micro-cosmos we should ever seek the right balance between competition and solidarity, criticism and empathy, exclusion and inclusion.

  Gil Kalai

  Writing, Science, Empathy

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• A grifter's got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothin' to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whipped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That's a score! No matter what happens.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Wise, Cheating, Eye

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• The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail and in the wit and energy of Michael Giacchino's score, but the quality control that has been exercised over this project also has a curiously undermining effect. The movie eagerly sells itself as semitrashy, almost-campy fun, but it is so lavish and fussy that you can't help thinking that it wants to be taken seriously, and therefore you laugh at, rather than with, its mock sublimity.

  A. O. Scott

  Fun, Taken, Thinking

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• All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Children, School

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• Congratulations to Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first person ever to score 50 test hundreds, absolute superstar

  Rohan Bopanna

  Congratulations, Tests, Firsts

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• It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.

  Gus Van Sant

  Football, Games, Goal

  Source: collider.com

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• There's not many things less important than the score at halftime.

  Bill Self

  Important, Halftime

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• I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.

  Eddie Murphy

  Stars, Writing, Way

  "One and Done: 30 Actors Who Only Directed One Movie" by Max Evry, www.mtv.com. October 01, 2013.

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• Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

  Gordon Allport

  Thinking, Comforting, Intellectual

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• The common breeds the common,
  A lout begets a lout,
  So when I take on half a score
  I knock their heads about.

  William Butler Yeats

  Half, Violence, Common

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.827, Simon and Schuster

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• An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.

  Mason Cooley

  Doe, Aphorism, Sentences

  "City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1994.

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• It takes 10 hands to score a basket

  John Wooden

  Hands, Baskets

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• Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

  Mason Cooley

  Change, Sophistication, Knows

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