#ken

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#begun #composers #diminishing #further #i

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling. ↗

— Jung Chang

#constantly #could #evil #excitement #feeling

I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#every #family #friends #fun #games

When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#day #everyday #game #got #i

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#awaken #before #bodies #bodily #body

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#broken glass #glass #light #me #moon

Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us. ↗

— Victor Cherbuliez

#eyes #half #hearts #joy #keep

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

#come #home #like #roost #sins

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#approach #awaken #beliefs #consciousness #crying