quotes about Amadeus

“The spirituality of the earth is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new”

“I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because I am ashamed of how badly I have treated the people I love–of how badly I behaved during my own personal Dark Ages–back before I had a future and someone who cared for me from above. It is like today the sky opened up and only now am I allowed to enter”

“It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.”

“He closed his eyes and let out a jagged breath. "Okay." He settled between my legs holding himself over me. "I've never been with a virgin, Eva. I'm going to try real hard not to hurt you." "Will it hurt you?" I asked, thinking about his pained expression when he'd said I was too tight. He smiled, "It's going to be the closest to heaven I'll ever get, baby.”

“People don't like to buy things that are going down.”

“They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.”

“Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.”

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”

Source : Max Planck (1933). “Where is science going?”

“Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.”

“In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.”

Source : "China's Unpeaceful Rise". Current History, Volume 105, 2006.