Total Quotes

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

I am the sum total of everything that I have experienced musically.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.

We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question.

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.