They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel. Bruce Babbitt American Politician More Bruce Babbitt Quotes 0
The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt. Robert A. Dahl American Writer More Robert A. Dahl Quotes 0
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time. Peter Maxwell Davies English Composer More Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes 0
If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece. Peter Maxwell Davies English Composer More Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes 0
I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process. Jay Inslee American Politician More Jay Inslee Quotes 0
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. Henry James American Writer More Henry James Quotes 0
So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do. Joseph Jarman American Musician More Joseph Jarman Quotes 0
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. Gustav Mahler Austrian Composer More Gustav Mahler Quotes 0
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. Huey Newton American Activist More Huey Newton Quotes 0
If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music. Christo Bulgarian Artist More Christo Quotes 0
I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool. James Cronin American Physicist More James Cronin Quotes 0
My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats. Kool Moe Dee American Musician More Kool Moe Dee Quotes 0
What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians. Bill Delahunt American Politician More Bill Delahunt Quotes 0
We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music. Kristin Davis American Actress More Kristin Davis Quotes 0
For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide. Boutros Boutros-Ghali Egyptian Public Servant More Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes 0
Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce. W. Averell Harriman American Politician More W. Averell Harriman Quotes 0
It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way. Davy Jones English Musician More Davy Jones Quotes 0
Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber. Orrin Hatch Politician More Orrin Hatch Quotes 0
If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review. Robin Hayes American Politician More Robin Hayes Quotes 0
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. Oliver Wendell Holmes American Writer More Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes 0
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom. Michael Lewis More Michael Lewis Quotes 0
Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right. Ted Kulongoski American Politician More Ted Kulongoski Quotes 0
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. Neville Marriner English Musician More Neville Marriner Quotes 0
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music. Amos Oz Israeli Writer More Amos Oz Quotes 0
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. Ernst Toller German Playwright More Ernst Toller Quotes 0