#sen

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#acute #arts #external #great #great talent

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#background #clear #educational #educational background #everyone

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#been #better #did #i #i wish

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities. ↗

— Alison Moyet

#again #am #could #hits #i

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#course #each #end #first #first of all

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#got #horn #i #only #playing

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#cause #consciousness #excited #external #nerves

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#evolutions #i #innovations #instruments #kind

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another. ↗

— Craig Mundie

#am #another #concerned #i #i am

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#different #father #left #me #media