"Jazz is a good barometer of freedom."

-- Duke Ellington

#Jazz Quotes #Barometer Quotes

“Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.”
“You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.”

Source : "Coach Salazar talks future of U.S. long distance, training Ritzenhein". Interview with David Epstein, www.si.com. November 5, 2010.
“Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.”
“I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.”
“At some point, Moore's law will break down.”

Source : Seth Lloyd (2011). “Programming The Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos”, p.157, Random House
“I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.'”
“But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I'm floating.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.234, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.”

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