#ties

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. ↗

— Robert Moog

#designs #details #done #effective #electronics

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off. ↗

— Robert Moog

#dad #i #i think #off #them

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#anything #contend #i #i write #kind

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#different times #education #humanities #i #sciences

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#difficult #doing #filmmaker #french #honoring

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#anything #doors #just #listen #off

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#brothers #contempt #difficulties #exposed #going

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#every #gandhi #generation #i #models

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#animal #bodies #chemistry #govern #inorganic

'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne. ↗

— Carey Mulligan

#drink #girl #go #i #implies