#rings

Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands. ↗

— Lionel Hampton

#diamond #hands #her #loved #music

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#before #blaze #crest #every #flowers

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#bows #high #high school #i #loved

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#deep #empty #fed #i #learned

The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#brings #denied #every #except #grateful

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death. ↗

— Hesiod

#brings #death #giving #good #taking

It's the music that brings us together. ↗

— John Oates

#music #together #us

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#cemetery #crow #falcon #him #king

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. ↗