#mel

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert. ↗

— William Osler

#become #communicate #expert #feel #five

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#breaking #completely #deep #different #justice

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age. ↗

— Candace Parker

#coach #dad #drove #extremely #first

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody. ↗

— Scott Patterson

#actually #compose #few #few things #finding

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#compatriots #consider #difficult #difficult moment #duty

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#becomes #develop #extremely #important #judge

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#great #great men #melancholy #men #poor

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#against #budgetary #care #desires #gop

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#been #books #computer #eclectic #extremely

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#brother #did #feet #i #i remember