#chan

I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out. ↗

— Don Ellis

#bored #came #changes #chord #could

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#another #call #exchange #nuisance #progress

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#entering #ferocity #grants #hearing #makes

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. ↗

— James Ellroy

#chandler #committed #gave #murder #once

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#banks #believed #bill #case #change

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#beat #certain #doing #exchange #exist

There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#change

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on. ↗

— Luis Figo

#barcelona #change #country #decision #did

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers. ↗

— Thom Filicia

#especially #essential #lighting #mood #room

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress. ↗

— Millard Fillmore

#mistake #progress #strange