Vita Sackville-West Quotes
The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
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It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.
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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
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Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.
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I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.
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I have had a career in public service.
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I have never really understood the objection to art which is specifically made for a gallery or museum, and so cannot be collected by an individual or taken home. It is rather like saying that all music should be confined to the chamber work or novels to the short story.
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.
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The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
