"Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment â€“ and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture."

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Source : Translated in Music Journal, p. 37, September, 1965.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#Mean Quotes #Dark Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.”

Source : "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". Interview with Henry Petroski, appel.nasa.gov. July 20, 2006.
“Amy Morton is a machine. If she misses a show it's because someone amputated her leg and she's looking for it.”
“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
“Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!”
“Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.”
“In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle, extreme hunger, sexism, and disenfranchisement. These issues are revealed through food encounters, and they contrast this with the pleasure and the inventiveness of Southern cuisine. Food is always at the heart of daily life in the South.”
“As a relentless gatherer of moments, I find that my favorite images, although grounded in the present, are like spirits shaped by memories. They whisper of fairy tales, poetry, and other lives, as each gesture connects with another and raises yet another from the dead. Shadows flicker on film to an inner melody as I navigate, camera at hand and at the speed of light, through unimaginable worlds - desperately trying to make sense of the joy and suffering before it all disappears.”
“Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.”

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