#lent

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. ↗

— Robert Burns

#armour #defensive #existence #favourite #i

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#happen #love #name #opera #other

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#empirically #finding #following #genius #inspiration

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. ↗

— Alexander the Great

#excel #excellent #extent #had #i

And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones. ↗

— Max Born

#always #been #cases #continuity #happenings

It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me. ↗

— Susan Boyle

#ago #because #choir #got #had

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#better #comes #get #hard #i

I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone. ↗

— Susie Bright

#everyone #i #kid #kindergarten #like

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#talents #age

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts. ↗