#halle

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#bands #blood #challenge #composers #drum

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. ↗

— Al Gore

#challenge #emergency #faces #i #imagination

Lisa understands me. I'm very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I've been kind of shy - opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that. ↗

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#been #challenge #complex #i #keep

The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that. ↗

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#biggest #biggest challenge #challenge #debris #dialogue

It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge! ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#challenge #clear #coming #galaxy #i

We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people. ↗

— Benny Green

#challenge #doing #each #enjoy #for the people

Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#challenges #democratic #each #educational #face

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#activity #biological #challenges #conscious #death

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#english #find #first #foremost #i

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up. ↗

— Taylor Hanson

#being #challenging #helps #i #idea