#ay

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life. ↗

— James Joseph Sylvester

#dream #feels #life #mathematician #mathematics

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect. ↗

— David Sylvian

#create #cultural #culture #environment #extent

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then. ↗

— Michael Symon

#around #back #day #dinner #down

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that. ↗

— Michael Symon

#cookbook #doing #food #good #how

The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job. ↗

— Michael Symon

#chef #customers #cut #day #decide

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#beings #consciousness #cry #face #feel

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#irish #language #like #soothing

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#cheering #lad #playboy #western #western world

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day. ↗

— Ryan Sypek

#because #close #college #conservatory #day

I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity. ↗

— Delta Goodrem

#had #hair #how #i #i always