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  • Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

    Writing   Ideas   Despair  
    Hector Berlioz (1935). “Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865: comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England”
  • Marina, as of the sea. You stick with Hector Ricardo. I'll take care of you;its in my name

    Sea   Names   Care  
  • The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

  • All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

    Paris   Brave   Southern  
  • Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

    François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.189, Gallic Books
  • Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing for the theatre does not give you permission to lecture, hector or bore.

    Source: www.theguardian.com
  • At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

  • All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

    Hate   Thrones   France  
    John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.74, Taylor & Francis
  • Happiness often comes when least expected.

    François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.42, Gallic Books
  • The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.

    Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss (2013). “Treatise on Instrumentation”, p.302, Courier Corporation
  • Before a fight between Riddick Bowe and Hector Gonzales: Generally when there's a lot of smoke . . . there's just a whole lot more smoke.

  • Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

    François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.78, Gallic Books
  • It's never the same relationship. I see my job as filling in the blanks. Whatever it is that the artist lacks in the process of making a record, I'm supposed to fill that in. And sometimes it's a lot of stuff and I have to hector them about working on the material and that sort of thing. Sometimes you have an artist that's really fairly self-sufficient; they just need another ear to offer some objective criticism, but otherwise pretty much know what they're doing. It varies a lot.

    Jobs   Artist   Self  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.

    Music   Dream   Eagles  
  • Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

  • Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid?

    Song   Plato   Struggle  
  • Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

    Book   Awards   Albums  
  • Impossible. I merely brought the essentials. Clothes, my favorite boots, face cream, makeup, a few books to read, a couple cans of caviar, lingerie, and my coffeepot. Plus a few other things a girl like me just can’t live without but can’t mention in mixed company because it would be indelicate. You know, because they’re sexual.” - at “lingerie,” Hector and Dallas had stood a little straighter. At “sexual,” they’d moaned. Jaxon punched them both in the back of the head.

    Girl   Couple   Book  
    Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter, Sharie Kohler (2011). “Origins: First Books of Three Paranormal Bestsellers: Cole, Showalter, Kohler: A Hunger Like No Other, Awaken Me Darkly, Marked by Moonlight, with excerpts from their three latest novels!”, p.1416, Simon and Schuster
  • Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.

  • Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.

    Dog   Time   Betrayal  
  • Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.

    François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.90, Gallic Books
  • I directed fourteen movies. Every movie had Hector Elizondo. He didn't like Beaches. I don't know, it was originally not a happy movie at all, it was much sadder than that. And they brought me in to kind of make it a little more 'warm', I guess you might call it. The original ending was a whole messy thing.

    Beach   Littles   Might  
    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR, ROMULUS, is now supplied by DOMINIC, FRANCIS, ANTHONY, and BENEDICT. Instead of the destruction of monsters, the subduing of tyrants, the defence of our native country; whippings and fastings, cowardice and humility, abject submission and slavish obedience, are become the means of obtaining celestial honours among mankind.

    Country   Hero   Mean  
    David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1245, Delphi Classics
  • Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!

    Military   War   Fall  
  • Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

    Mother   Father   Thee  
    Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.162, Library of Alexandria
  • I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

    Father   Men   Praise  
    "Tusculan Disputations", IV. 31, 67, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 624-25,
  • A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.

    Men   Brave   Quarrels  
    John Dryden (2014). “All for Love”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

    Passion   Fire   Light  
    Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

    Funny   Baseball   Humor  
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