Siciliana Bach Quotes

There was part of me listening that didn't think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story. ~ Richard Bach

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some. ~ Richard Bach

Johann Nikolaus Forkel, author of the monograph of which the following pages afford a translation, was born at Meeder, a small village in Saxe-Coburg, on February 22, 1749, seventeen months before the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose first biographer he became. ~ Johann Nikolaus Forkel

I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists. ~ Michel Onfray

I think if you can get to that point, exercising, when you really enjoy it, then you're pretty much set for life. ~ Sebastian Bach

I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketches. People don't realize that, with a story, there has to be a beginning, middle and end. There has to be a problem and a resolution. Just because it's six seconds doesn't mean it's not a story. ~ King Bach

If you argue for your limitations they are yours ~ Richard Bach

I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for, like, a half hour to the top of this mountain, and you ski down; it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible. ~ Sebastian Bach

A Composition on the Piano ~ Johann Sebastian Bach

We don't have rights until we claim them. ~ Richard Bach

The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I'm stunned by how many people are actually not rich. ~ David Bach

To me, one of the most profound questions we can ask is: "So what?" And so what if there's an indefinite number of worlds with alternate "us-es" in them? The "so what," to me, comes alive when I ask myself: "What if I could find a way to get in touch with those alternate mes who made those choices?" That is, persons who, if I saw them now, I wouldn't even recognize because their choices, once small, have multiplied to make them such different people. ~ Richard Bach

And Richard Bach said, 'A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. ~ Mia Storm

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky. ~ Lukas Foss

To the timid soul, nothing is possible. ~ John Bach

Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst. ~ Richard Bach

The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime. ~ Richard Bach

It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly. ~ Richard Bach

For Leslie who taught me to fly ~ Richard Bach

Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad. ~ Richard Bach

My thesis statement would be - Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music. ~ Chris Thile

I prefer Offenbach to Bach often. ~ Thomas Beecham

An author is a writer who didn't give up. ~ Richard Bach

Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference. ~ Ruggiero Ricci

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part. ~ Jillian Bach

On the wall was a dress that I embroidered. It said "Ich Habe Genug." Which is a Bach Cantata. Which I once thought meant "I've had it, I can't take anymore, give me a break." But I was wrong.
It means "I have enough." And that is utterly true. I happen to be alive. End of discussion. But I will go out and buy a hat. ~ Maira Kalman

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise. ~ Richard Bach

Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality. ~ Edward Bach

Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word? ~ Richard Bach

And with these gone from his thought, he lived a long ~ Richard Bach

I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock. ~ Johann Sebastian Bach

WE MUST HONOR our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It's their duty to ridicule us, it's their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card games philosophical: Ah, well, we can't toast 'em all ... ~ Richard Bach

Nobody had ever even stepped out onto the surface, she read in school, leading to a broken line of memorable first statements. "That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind," on Luna, "I wish that the peace I see here could bless the Earth again," from Mars, "This one's for you, Mark Twain," on Halley's Comet. And from the only manned landing on Venus, "Oh my holy fucking shit I think we're on the fucking ground! Get us up we're gonna fucking die! ~ Ari Bach

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. ~ Richard Bach

Go Green, Live Rich is the ultimate toolkit for greening the planet and our wallets at the same time. No one does a better job than David Bach in showing us the practical strategies for how to enjoy living sustainably. ~ Terry Tamminen

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? ~ Richard Bach

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. ~ Richard Bach

He carded his fingers through Bach's gleaming hair. "You're like the sun," he whispered.

"What does that make you?" Bach asked, nuzzling his face into the cradle of Einion's hip and untying his stockings with work-nimble fingers.

"Common as earth."

"More like the moon." Bach sat back on his heels and looked up. His eyes were gravity, night-dark and huge. Einion felt himself about to fall in. "Moving tides with the force of your will, forever holding half of yourself away from the rest of creation, silent and still and seductively changeable. Maddening. Caught in a dance with the sun for all of time." (Einion and Bach from The Prophecy of Ydrys Vega ~ Bran Mydwynter

Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth? ~ Richard Bach

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. ~ Richard Bach

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way. ~ Miles Davis