#mph

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. ↗

— Will Durant

#against #because #divided #machine #majority

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#add #artist #cognitive #coming #hear

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#continuing #either #emphasis #find #got

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#differently #doing #emphasized #i #jazz

O all fair lovers about the world, There is none of you, none, that shall comfort me. My thoughts are as dead things, wrecked and whirled Round and round in a gulf of the sea; And still, through the sound and the straining stream, Through the coil and chafe, they gleam in a dream, The bright fine lips so cruelly curled, And strange swift eyes where the soul sits free. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#dreams

I played in Kent's triumphant Second XI Trophy final team last season, ironically against Hampshire 2nds at the Rose Bowl last September, finishing with 2-17 off six overs. ↗

— James Hibberd

#bowl #final #finishing #hampshire #i

I am very glad as well that it is a presidency built on a campaign that emphasized ideas. I hope it will be a presidency that will enable everybody to be part of and proud of. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#built #campaign #emphasized #enable #everybody

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity. ↗

— Benny Hinn

#feel #i #i feel #material #much

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal. ↗

— Graham Kennedy

#anyone #emphasise #fatal #following #happens

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#apparently #call #emphasis #help #horn