#mel

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#different #different places #displacement #end #forced

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#beside #childhood #conjure #fleeting #lake

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#baggage #extreme #extremely #feel #i

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#alive #attained #brings #building #cannot

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. ↗

— Mose Allison

#concerned #essentials #far #i #improvisation

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa. ↗

— Gregg Allman

#first #floor #i #i can #melissa

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end. ↗

— Karel Capek

#devolved #end #in the end #mankind #me

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#gardening #grown #i #just #like

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#i #i think #lot #nasa #people

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. ↗

— David Antin

#centuries #circles #commonplace #like #literary