#lt

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#felt #happened #i #interesting #lessons

Phyllis, then seventeen, had grown into a lovely girl, although she was still in school uniform. Thus, Hera made it known that her beautiful daughter`s virginity was once more for sale & she had set the asking price at twenty thousand dollars. She would use the proceeds from the sale to clear her debts, & the surplus, she would give to Vicky in compensation for the three thousand dollars she had paid four years earlier to preserve Phyllis` virginity.[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

#beauty

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#culture #done #foreign #glories #human

The body is a sacred garment. ↗

— Martha Graham

#body #garment #sacred

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#answer #diversity #freedom #heritage #inspired

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#draw #eyes #faults #forehead #hat

If you just stay away from junk, and stick with what your mom taught you, you're eating pretty healthy. ↗

— Sprague Grayden

#eating #healthy #junk #just #mom

I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didn't deserve it. ↗

— Peter Green

#deserve #felt #had #handle #happy

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#change #changed #culture #deny #gone

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#coltrane #inspiration #kid #motion #motion picture