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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.

William Cullen Bryant

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

Jean de la Bruyere

Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature

John Moschitta

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

Lord Dunsany

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.

John Heywood

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.

Fran Lebowitz

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

Robert Burns

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

Elsa Schiapirelli

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.

Tom Lehrer

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.

Sir Arthur Eddington

"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 night—I changed the lock!.

John Boyle O'reilly

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.

Francis Thompson

Accurate information is a key part of motivation.

Mary Ann Allison

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.

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

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.

Johann Sebastian Bach

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.'

Igor Stravinsky

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.

Leonard Bernstein

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.

Leonard Bernstein

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Donald Downes

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.

Ron Jaworski

Patience is the key to paradise.

Albanian Proverb

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.

Christopher Ward

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Sarah Boseley

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Doug Larson

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.

Johann Sebastian Bach

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