Quotations

"For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art of the unexpected."

— Jane Cooper, American poet, born 1924

"Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier."

— Wendy Cope, English poet, born 1945

"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."

— Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, born 1473

"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

— Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, born 1473

"Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes."

— Aaron Copland, American composer, born 1900

"For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever."

— Aaron Copland, American composer, born 1900

"Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated."

— Aaron Copland, American composer, born 1900

"The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away."

— Aaron Copland, American composer, born 1900

"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."

— Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect, born 1887

"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."

— Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect, born 1887

"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe."

— Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect, born 1887

"For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit."

— 1 Corinthians 12:13

"Dancing is my wife, my woman."

— Joaquin Cortes, Spanish dancer, born 1969

"Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing."

— Bill Cosby, American comedian, born 1937