#pure

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#american politics #barack #because #black #cuz

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered. ↗

— Lara St. John

#having #instrument #intonation #play #possibility

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#benefit #direct #history #human #human needs

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#clear #cold #dead #like #literature

His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible. ↗

— Joshua Logan

#direct #form #heart #his #music

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#condemned #correspond #harmless #inclinations #least

The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it. ↗

— James Mansfield

#been #breathes #england #every #every man

I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#another #another way #art #beneath #connect

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts. ↗

— Max Muller

#breathe #dash #deep #follows #forgotten

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#despairing #i #immortal #know #most