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The chances of a conductor asking a section to play a passage by themselves in the rehearsal, is directly proportional to the difficulty of the passage and how well the people can play it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about nation, difficulties, chance, people

The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole...

Quote by Douglas Adams about end, haven, moment, people

The disposition of a fleet, while proceeding on a voyage, will in some measure depend on particular circumstances; as the difficulty of the navigation; the necessity of dispatch, according to the urgency or importance of the expedition: or the...

Quote by William Falconer about expectation, difficulties, circumstances, measure, enemies

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage...

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

The difficult passage practiced for hours, will not be played correctly once the student plays it for the teacher the more a student practices, the less likely he will play correctly during the lesson.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about teaching, teachers

Few passages of history are more striking than those...

Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians.

Quote by Francis Parkman about history

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

Quote by Francis Parkman about country, home, house, being

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has...

Quote by Walter Pater about beauty, literary critic, common sense, sense, wisdom, art, magic, love

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Quote by Walt Whitman about experience

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

Quote by William Shakespeare about books, eyes

Death does not exist, is a passage, a bridge, well my...

Death does not exist, is a passage, a bridge, well my friends, between death and sleep there is any difference?

Quote by Bartolomeu Anania about death, sleep

Our gardens are symbols of home rather than seduction. Young people with fire in their blood are seldom found in them. The garden is the scene of middle age, of the slow passage from sexual excitement to domestic routine.

Quote by Roger Vernon Scruton about opinion, garden, seduction, blood, sex, home, age, olderness, fire, fire brigade

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