Blended Mfana Quotes & Sayings

When we identify with music that we are perceiving - or perhaps better, with the person whom we imagine owns the emotions or emotional gestures we hear in the music - we share in and adopt these emotions as our own [...]. And so we end up feeling as, in imagination, the music does. — Jenefer Robinson

Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act. It should and could have been done earlier, had not the Clinton White House, which understood the need, not wasted the opportunity through timidity and bluster. — Arthur L. Herman

Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims. — Walter Savage Landor

I'm always curious, but I'm learning things I never thought I'd learn. I get to travel to places I never thought I'd go. — Laura Linney

Care about people's view and you will be their prisoner — Lao-Tzu

To stand in the pit, shoulder to shoulder, sweating and singing with people you hardly know is an amazing thing. "I'm such a bad singer that I hardly sing around my own home but I have no trouble screeching at the top of my lungs in a huge stadium. In that sense a Springsteen concert is kind of a religious thing. Everyone knows what and when to sing, when to raise their arms, to pogo-dance, when to be silent and respectful. The music of course also makes you feel connected to something 'higher'. — Greg Lewis

I knew this like I knew my heart was beating. I knew it like I knew pain, thoroughly and deeply, and in places where I could never rinse it out. — Audrey Bell

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money. — Ad Reinhardt

The path to wisdom is paved with humility. — Tim Fargo

A solution to the inner war solves the outer war as well. — The Arbinger Institute

I wanted to write for Broadway. — Cynthia Weil

There's another half that thinks you're just crazy." "Finally. My people." She — Richard Kadrey

Anybody who has spent time in Indian brothels and also, say, at Indian brick kilns knows that it is better to be enslaved working a kiln. Kiln workers most likely live together with their families, and their work does not expose them to the risk of AIDS, so there's always hope of escape down the road. — Nicholas D. Kristof

I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names. — Dana Spiotta