It is a fundamental characteristic of civilization that man most profoundly mistrusts those living outside his own milieu, so that... not only does the Teuton regard the Jew as an incomprehensible and inferior being, but the football player likewise so regards the piano player.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can't... buy that. It's about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don't think it's so much about becoming a tennis player. It's about becoming a person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see... A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamor With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour... Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes my wife complains that she's overwhelmed with work and just can't take one of the kids, for example, to a piano lesson. ...I'll offer to do it for her, and then she'll say, "No, I'll do it." We have to negotiate how much I trespass into that mother role--it's not given up easily.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So little are the Homeric heroes presented as developing or having developed, that most of them--Nestor, Agamemnon, Achilles--appe...ar to be of an age fixed from the very first. Even Odysseus, in whose case the long lapse of time and the many events which occurred offer so much opportunity for biographical development, shows almost nothing of it. Odysseus on his return is exactly the same as he was when he left Ithaca two decades earlier. But what a road, what a fate, lie between the Jacob who cheated his father out of his blessing by a wild beast!--between David the harp player, persecuted by his lord's jealousy, and the king, surrounded by violent intrigues, whom Abishag the Shunnamite warmed in his bed, and he knew her not! The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality; and it is this history of a personality which the Old Testament presents to us as the formation undergone by those whom God has chosen as his examples.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »