#so

When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#feel #how #instrument #like #music

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #joy #secret #sorrow #source

I am a person of the 18th century. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#am #century #i #i am #person

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#gift #i #like #make #music

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed? ↗

— Robert A. Cook

#day #devotions #dirty #face #go

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. ↗

— Clara Barton

#always #anything #been #better #complete

I made my money by selling too soon. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#i #made #money #selling #soon

I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have. ↗

— John Barton

#combining #dissimilar #drawing #i #ideas

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. ↗

— William Bartram

#birds #helpless #other #own #rear

We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future. ↗

— John Barton

#born #cannot #comfortable #engaging #fact