#ode

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song. ↗

— David Antin

#distaste #far #great #had #i

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#imagination #inspiration #model #quench #slave

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#identities #key #liberty #modern #modern world

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#before #bosnia #closing #could #create

His modesty amounts to deformity. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#his #modesty

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#beat #deliver #episodes #feel #going

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#absolute #absolute necessity #age #below #beneath

Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#development #economic #economic development #focused #global

The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#deal #development #doing #here #idea

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code! ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#code #complicated #detailed #guidelines #irs