#temper

It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up. ↗

— Piers Corbyn

#around #carbon #carbon dioxide #case #dioxide

The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other. ↗

— Piers Corbyn

#been #carbon #carbon dioxide #dioxide #each

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#baseball #because #christian #doing #engaged

The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#back #being #bust #careful #could

One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath. ↗

— Jack Gould

#bath #decide #depth #does #temperature

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! ↗

— William Hague

#best #self-knowledge #tempered

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered. ↗

— Lara St. John

#having #instrument #intonation #play #possibility

My teacher, Ben Johnston, was convinced that our tuning is responsible for much of our cultural psychology, the fact that we are so geared toward progress and action and violence and so little attuned to introspection, contentment, and acquiescence. Equal temperament could be described as the musical equivalent to eating a lot of red meat and processed sugars and watching violent action films. The music doesn't turn your attention inward, it makes you want to go out and work off your nervous energy on something. ↗

— Kyle Gann

#just-intonation #music #music-theory #equality

Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#always #father #fell #felt #i

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#credit #dressed #good #man #may