#tempe

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature. ↗

— David Tudor

#like #much #performing #putting #raising

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. ↗

— Larry Wall

#controlled #damn #harvard #humidity #law

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately. ↗

— Edward Weston

#active #acts #age #bodies #decisively

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. ↗

— Frances E. Willard

#foul #good #moderation #temperance #things

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#angry #certain #end #getting #lose

So, what you're saying is that I bring out your book - wielding, short tempered side?" He hooked his foot through the straps of my backpack and brought in front of him. "Removing temptation." I gave him a look that communicated he should wither and die. ↗

— Lani Woodland

#temper #communication

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician. ↗

— Frank Black

#because #business #caught #certainly #company

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. ↗

— Lactantius

#age #controls #delights #memory #old

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#colours #consider #dependence #forth #instance

I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#coral #find #growth #had #i