#ails

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#color #composing #details #down #driving

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level. ↗

— John Bruton

#economic #european #expansion #fails #financial

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#admit #another #bold #common #common sense

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. ↗

— Charles Buxton

#breeze #first #joyous #rustle #sails

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details. ↗

— William Feather

#bothered #details #person #who

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. ↗

— Maria Callas

#ear #fails #heart #missed #music

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#geeks #love #matter #much #people

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. ↗

— John Updike

#children #decided #education #equipped #fathers

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#calls #continue #days #death #fingernails

I don't get emails from my corporate overlords. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#emails #get #i