#bach

Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#bachelor #i #majored #marketing #science

That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#bach #beauty #chorale #comes #difference

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#gorbachev #i #like #mr #together

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#beauty #boy #forever #gets #idea

She wanted to walk into a crowded restaurant where a man would look up and take her into his arms with his eyes. She wanted to know what it was like to feel that she was beautiful to someone and had been eagerly waited for ↗

— J.R. Ward

#beauty

Adventure should be part of everyone's life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing. ↗

— Holly Morris

#pal-bachendri #travel #change

Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur sticking out? He said: 'Queenie, I think I'm going to pass out and before I do, I'm going to give you a piece of advice' - God, I thought he was going to die and knew and was telling me what to do with his book - and he said quite solemnly: 'Queenie, always stick to Bach and the early Italians' - and passed out cold as a mackerel. And by God, it's not bad advice. ↗

— Walker Percy

#death #humor #the-moviegoer #walker-percy #death

Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#marya-hornbacher #mental-illness #life

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#dignity #freedom #good-governance #government #independence

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ... ↗

— William Shakespeare

#blessings #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands