#pia

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#creates #dearest #happiness #help #her

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#classical #country #country music #drums #exciting

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#his #i #i think #jim #lot

Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#fields #get #legions #might #movement

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#around #away #backing #because #began

On the stage Tristen bent over the piano, his fingers swift and sure, his blond hair gleaming under the spotlight. I glanced around at the audience, watching their faces, gratified that they were as captivated as I was by the dark, thunderous song that Tristen conjured. ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#chemistry #dark #dr-jekyll #mr-hyde #piano

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. ↗

— Kiana Tom

#beethoven #chopin #classical #i #mainly

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#family #olympians #olympic #past #role

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#authoritarian #believe #cynical #form #heart

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beings #cancer #communities #cure #eliminate