Holst The Planets Mars Quotes & Sayings

At the end of the day, women must understand how they look is important, but not all-important; that there are different ideas of beauty. It is in the eye of the beholder and it comes from within. — Poppy King

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound. — Nicholson Baker

Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going. — Sofia Vergara

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets. — Patrick Rothfuss

The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat. — John Dewey

For Guy Davenport--whom he told me John Barth once called the last modernist--modernism is 'a renaissance of the archaic'. — Lance Olsen

Oh, I find whatever you do a source of perpetual fascination. — Philip Pullman