#range

Maybe the higher echelons of my range aren't as easily accessible, but that's OK; you change the key. ↗

— Elaine Paige

#change #easily #higher #key #maybe

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

#animal #being #between #body #dominance

I reached my hand up when he catches me by the wrist stopping me. "No touching," he speaks so low it is barley a whisper. I gasped, damn what a turn on, I try reaching for his hair with my other hand when he stops me again. Roughly he tells me again, "No touching. ↗

— Glenna Maynard

#beauty

From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#anything #contribution #force #i #i do

exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#exile #migration #sorrow #experience

In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe. ↗

— Niki Lauda

#air #area #became #berlin #carriers

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light. ↗

— Max von Laue

#arrangement #basic #basic principles #corresponding #decisive

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me. ↗

— Tommy Lee

#experience #good #jail #kind #me