#temper

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

— David Tudor

#like #much #performing #putting #raising

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

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

— Lactantius

#age #controls #delights #memory #old

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#am #argued #been #brilliant #british

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it. ↗

— Sean O'Casey

#keep #lose #me #never #rule

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beautiful #beauty #being #certain #correct

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#acids #changed #food #high #need

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. ↗

— Philip Sidney

#care #easy #great #health #ingredients

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#approach #capacity #challenge #engaging #error

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#down #i #i am #republican #temperance