#fort

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance. ↗

— John Zorn

#bad performance #check #classical #comfortable #fact

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#bad times #changes #fortune #good #good and bad

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#consists #felicity #fortune #inward #man

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God. ↗

— John Tyler

#being #being responsible #conscience #created #fellow

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. ↗

— Ovid

#counts #everywhere #fortune #friendships #honors

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#after #america #anyone #bush #bush administration

I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it. ↗

— David Caruso

#being #comfortable #covers #guy #i

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns. ↗

— Ovid

#fortune #prayers

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason. ↗

— James Carville

#gets #reason #right #right reason #right thing

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#comes #dark #days #either #everything