Seventh Quotes - page 4

Not since the time of Berlioz has a symphonic composer created such a stir. In far-away America, great conductors vie with each other for the jus primae noctis of his music. The score of his Seventh Symphony, the symphony of struggle and victory, has been reduced to a roll of microfilm and flown half-way across the world...to speed the day of the American première. How the old romantics would have loved to be the center of such a fantastic adventure! (Dmitri Shostakovich)
Next follows the seventh step, the noblest and most elevated that it is possible to realize in the life of time or eternity. It is attained when, above all knowledge and science, we find within us a limitless ignorance; when, passing beyond every name given to God or creatures we expire and pass to an eternal Unnamable where we are lost; when, further than any practice of Virtue, we contemplate and discover within us everlasting Repose, or immeasurable Beatitude where none can act; when we contemplate above all blessed Spirits an essential Beatitude where all are one, melted, lost, in their Superessence in the bosom of a darkness defying all determination or knowledge. View quote
John Ruysbroeck
When I was a child, I was terrified by this. (plays theme from The Magic Roundabout ) It was very sinister, wasn't it? It just went on and on, like Dante's seventh circle of Hell. I recently found out there was a secret middle section deemed unsuitable for small children. There's about four hours of this, then it all starts to go a bit weird. (plays discordant music) (Booming echoing voice) I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion! Ch. 38, 1:24:37. View quote
Bill Bailey
As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn't a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it. View quote
Susan Orlean
Since all power from the seventh century on was only legitimated by religion, political forces and economic interests pushed for the fabrication of false traditions. View quote
Fatema Mernissi
What's the dog called?"Jason asked. "Feraclestinius Androbrelium Pathershin the Seventh." "No, I meant his entire name. View quote
Brandon Mull
Aim to eat healthy six days out of the week, and then enjoy what I call a 'super splurge' on the seventh day. It helps you enjoy yourself and not feel so deprived, so you're ready to recommit to healthy eating the following week. View quote
Denise Austin
I visited 20 countries while I was pregnant. I had to stop after my seventh month. View quote
Ivanka Trump
The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous! View quote
Roseanne Barr
I was home schooled starting in seventh grade. (Austin Butler)
Among the different coins struck in Mahmud's reign one bore the following inscription: "The right hand of the empire, Mahmud Sultan, son of Nasir-ud-Din Subuk-Tigin, Breaker of Idols." This coin appears to have been struck at Lahor, in the seventh year of his reign. View quote
Mahmud of Ghazni
From the seventh century onwards and with a peak during Muhammad al-Qasim's campaigns in 712-713 a considerable number of Jats [Hindus] was captured as prisoners of war and deported to Iraq and elsewhere as slaves. View quote
Muhammad bin Qasim
But Orpheus has always haunted me, and I am not so sure I've exorcised his spell on me. For all I know, I may yet be tempted to try a sixth or a seventh 'Orpheus' in years to come. Besides the scale of each figure makes it necessary to conceive it differently. View quote
Ossip Zadkine
The Mahābhāshya was commented on in the seventh century by Bhartṛihari in his Vākyapadīya which is concerned with the philosophy of grammar, and by Kaiyaṭa (probably thirteenth century). About 650 A. D. was composed the first complete commentary on Pāṇini, the Kāçikā Vṛitti or "Benares Commentary," by Jayāditya and Vāmana. View quote
Pāṇini
The seventh Definition. The Golden Rule, or Rule of three, is that by which to three tearmes given, the fourth proportionall tearme is found. View quote
Simon Stevin
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. View quote
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman. View quote
Anna Faris
Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title. View quote
Anwar Robinson
I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself. View quote
Cynthia Voigt
I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round. (David Dunn)
I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn't know how to put my fingers on all the different strings, so I had to figure out how to do it upside down and backwards, and I still play that way today. View quote
Dick Dale
I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh. View quote
Dontrelle Willis
The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999. View quote
Frances O'Grady
I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.' View quote
Gayle King