#sent

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present. ↗

— Claus von Stauffenberg

#been #could #general #had #high

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years. ↗

— Paula Cole

#asthma #bad #career #daughter #diagnosed

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#concentrating #conversation #doing #feeling #going

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#aye #been #could #dream #flower

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#ear #engage #equal #fiction #inner

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#essential #experience #get #opposite #person

At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces. ↗

— Domenico Dolce

#career #designer #his #important #most

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis. ↗

— David Douglass

#essential #fall #hypothesis #love #neutral

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ↗