The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime, As when some master-hand exulting sweeps The keys of some great organ, ye give forth The music of the woodland depths, a hymn Of gladness and of thanks.
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.
That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. - "In the Nature of the Physical World", 1928.
"You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?" Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last nightâI changed the lock!.
The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait. God laid His fingers on the ivories Of her pure members as on smoothed keys, And there out-breathed her spirit's harmonies.
Accurate information is a key part of motivation.
God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
Patience is the key to paradise.
Rob Helb served as an Army Air Corps gunner and lost an arm over the oil fields of Turkey. After crashing, he asked a crew member to retrieve his bloodied and severed arm so he could remove from its wrist the gold watch his father had given him.
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.