"The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series."

-- Nadia Boulanger

#Inspiration Quotes #Order Quotes #Ears Quotes

“To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.”
“And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.”
“At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives, that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction. The art of the photographer lies in using those connotations, as a poet uses the connotations of words and a musician the tonal connotations of sounds.”
“Art disturbs, science reassures.”
“In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself.”
“I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses,”

Source : "Quote of the Day: Emma Thompson on Fighting for Female Roles and Women’s Rights" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. April 14, 2014.
“The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.”
“Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.”

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