#peak

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound. ↗

— Eduard Hanslick

#combinations #hear #means #music #notes

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men. ↗

— Jane Harman

#cia #dialects #fbi #fbi agents #intimidated

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#constructed #historically #poem #question #remains

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#away #barbarous #criminal #criminal justice #english-speaking

I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much. ↗

— Corey Hart

#find #grapple #i #i can #much

It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#fit #hair #human #inside #netflix

I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#circle #even #face #fell #forgive

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#author #cite #does #from time to time #great

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#although #bellows #breath #come #come and go

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#became #big #climb #closer #deliberate