"So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stoneâ€¦ The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up ***** creek. He smiled."

-- E. L. Doctorow

#Pyramids Quotes #May Quotes #Stones Quotes

“Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.”
“It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new at the same time. That was the kind of symphony I wanted to write: a symphony in the classical style. And when I saw that my idea was beginning to work, I called it the Classical Symphony.”

Source : "Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences". Book edited by S. Shlifstein and translated by Rose Prokofieva, p. 46; from the "Autobiography", 1960.
“Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.”
“If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.”
“My schedule has not calmed down, but I'm definitely not so devastated as I used to be. Definitely cooler now. A lot of blessings have fallen into my lap, and I'm very thankful to receive all of them.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“In 1967, in DeKalb v. DeSpain, a court (255 F.Supp. 655. N.D.Ill. 1966.) took a 4-line nursery rhyme used by a K-5 kindergarten class and declared the nursery rhyme unconstitutional. The court explained that although the word 'God' was not contained in this nursery rhyme, if someone were to hear the rhyme, he might think that it was talking about God - and that would be unconstitutional!”
“I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.”
“I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.”

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