Gerald Finzi quotes

Gerald Finzi quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.”
-- Gerald Finzi

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“But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.”
-- Gerald Finzi

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“Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?”
“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”

Source : Attributed in Bennett Cerf, The Life of the Party (1956)
“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
“I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.”
“Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”
“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”
“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”
“At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'”
“Love is the way I feel for you, the way you fill something inside me whenever you so much as walk into the same room. Sometimes love is quite, lingering in the background until you least expect it. But love it always there for you”
“You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.”

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