Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989
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Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
—Alexander Pope, 1712Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
—Winston Churchill, 1945Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991