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When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing."

– Arthur Schnabel, My Life and Music (1961)Rate it:

When I am asked, What do you think of our audience I answer, I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.

– Arthur SchnabelRate it:

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

– Michel de MontaigneRate it:

When I am centered on love I don’t need to be better than you. I don’t need you to like me. I don’t need to be rich. I don’t even need to be extraordinary. When I am centered on love who I am and where I am at is enough

– Renae A. SauterRate it:

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

– Hilaire BellocRate it:

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

– Hilaire BellocRate it:

When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods.

– Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of RussiaRate it:

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree. Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet And if thou wilt, remember And if thou wilt, forget.

– Christina Georgina RossettiRate it:

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.

– Marc ChagallRate it:

When I am right no one remembers, when I am wrong, no one forgets.

– Larry GoetzRate it:

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail --- none of which is easy.

– Princess AnneRate it:

When I arrived in San Francisco in 1957 I discovered a community existing on the edge of the city unlike any other in America. Reckless, creative, frenetic, insane, it was too insane for a lot of people, for not many survived. I did, however, and in surviving came of age in the cheap pads and artists' lofts in North Beach. In the process I lost my innocence and my youth, but gained an indelible memory of a bunch of crazy people who lived, fought, struggled, loved, and even died together with a sense of elan and community that I had never experienced before nor have found since.

– Jerry KamstraRate it:

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

– Brendan BehanRate it:

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange -- my youth.

– Sara TeasdaleRate it:

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

– Peter De VriesRate it:

When I certify someone insane, I am not equivocating when I write that he is of unsound mind, may be dangerous to himself and others, and requires care and attention in a mental hospital. However, at the same time, I am also aware that, in my opinion, there are other people who are regarded as sane, whose minds are as radically unsound, who may be equally or more dangerous to themselves and others and whom society does not regard as psychotic and fit persons to be in a madhouse.

– R. D. LaingRate it:

When I close my eyes and listen to sound of my own breath, every cell of my body is thankful. This is how I practice my Gratitude everyday.

– Purvi RanigaRate it:

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

– Vivien LeighRate it:

When I compare my Life with others who are less fortunate, I feel so blessed and grateful that I immediately stop complaining and start Living with Joy and Gratitude.

– RVMRate it:

When I consecrate a new church in the Archdiocese, I often point to the altar and explain that the altar in every Catholic Church is the center of the universe, because Christ is the center of history.

– Francis Cardinal George, OMIRate it:

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

– John DrydenRate it:

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

– Blaise PascalRate it:

When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always.

– Mahatma GandhiRate it:

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