Let your mind alone, and see what happens. – Virgil Thomson
Try a thing you havent done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. – Virgil Thomson
I dont care what other critics say, I only hope to be played. – Virgil Thomson
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good. – Virgil Thomson
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. – Alexandre Dumas