(30 quotes found)
“If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown”
Adam Walinsky
“Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled”
George Bernard Shaw
“The person who regularly recites mantra attains liberation from the fears of disease and death.”
Yajur Veda
“Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be more suitable for our ears”
Marcus Aurelius
“I could stand here and recite statistic after statistic, indicator after indicator but I don't need to. All of you know where Louisiana stands [health care]. At the bottom.”
Kathleen Blanco
“After bathing, the Muslims recite their prayers, and after bathing, the Hindus perform their worship services.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“And when Our communications are recited to him, he turns back proudly, as if he had not heard them, as though in his ears were a heaviness, therefore announce to him a painful chastisement.”
quran
“And recite what has been revealed to you of the Book of your Lord, there is none who can alter His words; and you shall not find any refuge besides Him.”
“[Her husband, violinist Sanford Allen, rehearses Bach on his Stradivarius next door, for a recital upstate, where they have a country house. They married in 1969, after meeting when she was a guide at the Lincoln Center, and he the first African-American to join the New York Philharmonic.] He asked me to lunch, then sent a huge bunch of roses to me in London, ... I was only supporting actress. Others thought the lead, Felicity Kendal, should have won.”
Ismail Merchant
