#mit

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate. ↗

— William Floyd

#despotism #destruction #families #fate #fear

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#committees #composition #hated #i #music

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children. ↗

— Robert Benton

#america #being #care #children #close

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. ↗

— Hector Berlioz

#failings #i #lack #least #modesty

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#call #external #how #i #i see

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#certainties #childhood #craving #desire #eternal

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

#although #because #couple #despised #had

We have limits to what we can do. At some point there has to be an informed personal choice. ↗

— Jim Geringer

#informed #limits #personal #personal choice #point

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#answer #asserting #attack #character #conformity

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer. ↗

— Marilyn Horne

#composer #even #foreign #language #limited