#han

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. ↗

— Ernest Newman

#bach #beethoven #day #down #hand

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#boy #diverting #finding #great #i

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#appearances #both #causes #explain #more

Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#built #courses #doing #etc #golf

I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change. I feel 30 and want to look that way again. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#breaking #change #discussion #feel #i

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell? ↗

— Adela Florence Nicolson

#beside #hands #i #lies #loved

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#i #i can #i think #more #myself

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#character #determined #experiences #had #lack

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#bed #english #excited #farm #i

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#ever #filmmaking #interest #job #me