Alura Inn Quotes & Sayings

All my human relationships have to do with a mask of me, and I must perpetually be the victim of living a completely hidden life. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To friends and family: Look beyond a bruise for signs of domestic abuse of a loved one. We — Janie McQueen

There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice. — Charlie Haden

Sometimes guitar riffs get repeated over and over ("vamping," in the lingo of musicians), but generally there is a soloist proving variation that runs above that background, lest the song sound monotonous. Philip Glass's minimalist compositions (such as the soundtrack to 'Koyaanisqatsi') deviate from much of the classical music that preceded them, with much less obvious movement than, say, the Romantic-era compositions that his work seems to rebel against, yet his works, too, consist not only of extensive repetition but also of constant (though subtle) variation. Virtually every song you've ever heard consists of exactly that: themes that recur over and over, overlaid with variations. — Gary F. Marcus

Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject — Claude C. Hopkins

When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything. — Miyamoto Musashi

Everything can change in a heartbeat; it can slip away in an instant. Everything you trust, and treasure, whatever brings you comfort, comes at a terrible cost. Health is temporary; money disappears. Safety is nothing big an illusion.

So when the moment comes, and everything you depend upon changes, or perhaps someone you love disappears, or no longer loves you, must disaster follow? Or will you-somehow-adapt? — Margaret Overton

[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it. — Edward Victor Appleton

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity. — Josh Billings

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it. — Andrea Dworkin