#pose

Forever is composed of nows. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#forever

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#blue #company #first #i #jean

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#disorder #gaiety #genius #machine #men

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#composers #form #found #many #only

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#another #brief #clusters #composer #four

I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#i #into #music #purposes #sorts

I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet. ↗

— John Dingell

#close #feet #foot #his #i

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#being #brought #conviction #even #existence

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. ↗

— William Blake

#among #dream #leaves #repose #travelers

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. ↗

— William Blake

#degrade #empire #englishmen #follows #foundation