"I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done."

God,

21

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done."

Exlpore more God quotes

"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

God, Decency, Man, Mind

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

God,

"Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest."

Herodotus, Greek Historian

God, Houses, Rest, Trees

"There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance."

Thomas Pynchon, American Writer

God, Behavior, Chance, Difference

"I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair."

James Lipton, American Educator

God, Right, Students

"Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it."

Joseph Smith, Jr., American Clergyman

God, Truth, Joseph Smith, Jr.

"My name is Linus, and I am your God."

Linus Torvalds, Finnish Businessman

God, Name

"The groves were God's first temples."

William C. Bryant, American Poet

God, First

"But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god."

Larry Hagman, American Actor

God, People, Alcohol, Turkey

"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

God, Creation, Magic, Man

Explore more quotes by Franz Schubert

"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"

Art

"I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can."

Imagination

"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy."

Joy

"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"

Idea

"Why does God endow us with compassion?"

God

"There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals."

Impulses

"Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief."

Hope

"Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife."

Wife

"The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention."

Fool

"Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house."

Gardening