#sin

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing. ↗

— John James Audubon

#good #me

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#clues #continue #could #develop #fascinating

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. ↗

— Jane Austen

#business #does #ever #friendship #hardly

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. ↗

— Avicenna

#all things #anything #causes #complete #knowledge

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#business #came #compared #could #different

We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan. ↗

— Shaukat Aziz

#blankets #housing #need #pakistan #repair

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#given #hopeless #long #mathematics #over

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#affect #composition #comprises #conscious #content

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#audience #beautiful #billie #billie holiday #cool

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. ↗

— William Bernbach

#against #believing #i #science #warn