#text

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone. ↗

— Olivier Messiaen

#exactly #like #made #make #music

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#discovery #i #i love #interesting #language

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink. ↗

— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

#colour #ink #magical #merely #pen

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective. ↗

— Criss Jami

#amount #classification #classify #context #creativity

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. ↗

— John Pople

#cover #discarded #found #i #read

I thought it best, finally, to start seeing where I've been rather than where I'm going. ↗

— David Ohle

#age

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources. ↗

— Michael Rostovtzeff

#historical #illustrations #importance #independent #information

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#halfway #interpretation #like #mean #means

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#always #around #come #dimension #feeling

There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#built #close #demolished #destruction #gaza