#form

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#bit #born #composition #entire #even

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#effective #extremely #formal #joys #life

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#five #formula #make #two #without

Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#body #call #cathedrals #each #finger

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#better #better place #community #each #everybody

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing. ↗

— Brad Dourif

#better #film #i #i always #like

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#ends #experience #first #highly #i

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#formulas #future #i #involves #mentioned

My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#always #bus #clamor #crowds #eighties

After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#army #basket #cat #dad #doubling