#owl

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#always #basic #composer #decide #difficult

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#calming #composer #desire #down #energy

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#alone #being #boil #coffee #does

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#knowledge #practice #wisdom #you

A baby's existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you're actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that's a big deal. A very big deal. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#acknowledge #actually #baby #big #big deal

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#constantly #counteract #education #generations #inexorable

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. ↗

— David Hare

#sail #thought #wind

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#come #describe #exhibit #experiments #explain

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#fills #knowledge #large #merely #small