#ear

All the sounds of the earth are like music. ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein

#like #music #sounds

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#darkroom #i #me #never #photographing

Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#ask #before #characters #clear #clear idea

Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#along #big #books #came #century

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#nuclear-bomb #science #wwii #death

He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press. ↗

— Henry Villard

#appeared #associated #brought #bull #campaign

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#death #death penalty #desire #driving #father

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#father #fifty #haven #i #me

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night. ↗

— John Philpot Curran

#am #badly #been #coughing #dear

It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about. ↗

— Steven Squyres

#address #came #does #fill #fundamental