Quotes About Classical

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

I can talk to him about anything. We have the same kind of education and—" "What kind of education?" Clay asked. "We enjoy the arts. Music, literature, theater, art. My degree is in classical studies.

Classical liberals are more concerned with individual freedom, while leftists embrace equality of outcome.

there are many who date the end of 'classical' Greek civilisation to the battle of Chaeronea in 338 BCE.

Arminians share with classical Calvinists a firm belief in human depravity and the necessity of divine initiative for salvation.

If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation alone

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some crisis, some fall from classical greatness, some corruption or evil to be saved from.

Classisch ist das Gesunde, romantisch das Kranke.

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Life as we know, and partially understand it, is a classical example of what can occur when a sufficient level of complexity is attained. Consciousness appears to be a manifestation of an even more elaborate level of organization.

The effect of the 'time becomes space' proposal is that there is no definite moment or point of creation. In more conventional quantum mechanical terms we would say that the universe is the result of a quantum mechanical tunneling process, where it must be interpreted as having tunneled from nothing at all. Quantum tunneling processes, which are familiar to physicists and routinely observed, correspond to Transitions which do not have a classical path.

A brilliant student, John Wesley pursued his education at Oxford University from 1720 until 1724. He was adept in a number of languages and appreciated classical culture. He became very interested in the writings of the church fathers (especially St. Chrysostom, Gregory of Nyssa, and later Macarius). He meditated on Bishop Taylor's Rules and Exercises of Holy Living and Holy Living and Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying

She's sweet on Wagner. I think she'd die for Beethoven. she loves the way Puccini lays down a tune, and Verdi's always creeping from her room.

Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is the dimension of life, of intelligently organized and purpose-driven beings, which arose from matter. The third is the very existence of nature. But it is not science alone that guided me. I have also been helped by a renewed study of the classical philosophical arguments.

Tradition is here nothing but a bulwark against the all too violently approaching storms of unfamiliar, an element which is felt to be a principle of life but also of destruction. It is impossible to understand mannerism if one does not grasp the fact that its imitation of classical models is an escape from the threatening chaos, and that the subjective over-straining of its forms is the expression of the fear that form might fail the struggle with life and art fade into soul-less beauty.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.