#wards

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#christmas #christmas album #heading #looked #making

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#attention #directed #early #exploring #government

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#badly #cannot #dishonest #doing #done

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#categorized #chemicals #earthly #good #illegal

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it. ↗

— John Corigliano

#eighty #gravitate #percent #pieces #somewhere

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#comes #just #make #other #something

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately. ↗

— Ely Culbertson

#cards #immediately #out #politics #power

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#backwards #blush #boss #corruption #could

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#awards #flattery #nice #quality #songs

If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#answer #balance #boston #chamber #changes