Popular Quotes

Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

- Ned Rorem | Art and the Artist Quotes

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.

- Ned Rorem | Art and the Artist Quotes

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

- Ned Rorem | Imagination Quotes

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

- Ned Rorem | Words and Language Quotes

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

- Ned Rorem | Friendship Quotes

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

- Ned Rorem | Perfection Quotes