#ear

I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#chance #did #get #get married #going

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent. ↗

— Anita Diament

#acting #alternative #beautiful #history #i

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. ↗

— Anita Diament

#cathedral #dining #dining room #family #heart

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#cents #cereal #days #definitely #did

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#each #ears #fields #individual #just

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#dirty #doing #enough #i #i am

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#much #oneself #perfecting

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#give #heart #life #living #must

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#bits #children #discovered #forgot #i

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience. ↗