"At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object."

-- James Elkins

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“I love what I do and I love the fans.”
“We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.”

Source : Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.13
“Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.”
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.”
“Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.”

Source : "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'Frontier Freedom'". Interview with Rick Henderson, www.ff.org. December 21, 2012.
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
“His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.”
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

Source : Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

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