Famous quotes containing the words gold, crew and/or conducted:
“Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds.”
—René Daumal (19081944)
“Nor aught availed him now
To have built in heavn high towrs; nor did he scape
By all his engines, but was headlong sent
With his industrious crew to build in hell.”
—John Milton (16081674)
“If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesnt have to go to an osteopath, then theres something wrong.”
—Simon Rattle (b. 1955)