#eludes

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#among #anxious #business #dealings #do the right thing

[On Chopin's Preludes:] "His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds. His composition of that night was surely filled with raindrops, resounding clearly on the tiles of the Charterhouse, but it had been transformed in his imagination and in his song into tears falling upon his heart from the sky. ... The gift of Chopin is [the expression of] the deepest and fullest feelings and emotions that have ever existed. He made a single instrument speak a language of infinity. He could often sum up, in ten lines that a child could play, poems of a boundless exaltation, dramas of unequalled power. ↗

— George Sand

#composition #genius #gift #magic #music

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#eternity #even #thought #us

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#eludes #fought #hamburger #interest #like

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. ↗

— James Dobson

#couples #eludes #expect #find #i

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. ↗

— Andre Gide

#annoys #artificial #bores #constructs #eludes

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? ↗

— William Osler

#eludes #ever #fickle #grasp #his

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. ↗

— Ovid

#like #long #many #offered #them