#thou

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener. ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#because #else #even #fantasy #fiction

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. ↗

— Vladimir Horowitz

#dynamics #i #make #me #mistake

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#director #drawing #give #itself #job

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. ↗

— Julien Green

#corners #dark #ever #fear #grownup

What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#behind #finally #get #here #his

I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe. ↗

— Brian Greene

#countless #dark #does #ever #filled

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. ↗

— Robert Greene

#determine #dispose #fall #gods #lip

I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#fabulous #got #hated #i #instrument

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

#body #constitution #court #every #general

Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago - my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#companion #did #drinking #eating #finally