#w

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born. ↗

— Charlie Parker

#chords #could #harmonic #heard #high

Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#voice

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#meaning #words #voice

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#exhaustion #lightsong #work #work-ethic #ethics

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right? ↗

— Bernhard Schlink

#law #morality #ethics

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150) ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#ethics

A woman has but two loves in life: the one who broke her heart and the one she spends the rest of her life with." - Carolyn Chase, former Broadcast Journalist and heroine Kate Theodore's mother ↗

— Liz Newman

#quotes-about-heartbreak #romance #women-s-fiction #women-s-strength #life

...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while... ↗

— John Geddes

#twitter-quotes #wisdom-quote #writer #writer-s-block #writers-quotes

Your working assumption, when you meet a homophobe, should be that they are gay. ↗

— Johann Hari

#twitter

I like the way you secretly send me a direct message when we're in the middle of a conversation. ↗

— Ariel Seraphino

#message #twitter #twitter