Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
- Hector Berlioz
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
- Edmond de Goncourt
