#harp

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affects #familiar #familiar things #finding #foreign

At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick. ↗

— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

#go #had #harps #i #indiana

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#each #ears #fields #individual #just

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#distinction #distinctions #i #make #much

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#axe #axes #blunt #equally #impossible

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm. ↗

— David Dinkins

#arm #sharpton #twist #you

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. ↗

— Diogenes

#harp #insensible #itself #like #mouths

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space. ↗

— Leon Foucault

#brought #carrying #fact #few #forever

I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#coming #energy #following #how #i