Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)
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General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879–1953Related quotes
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Joey Comeau (1980) writer
"Where Are You Off To Now?"
Anthology
“The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
“If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break
In music, sweeter than it ever gave”
Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) United States poet, novelist and travel writer
"The Return of the Goddess" (1850), later published as the Preface to The Poet's Journal (1863); also in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 103.
Context: If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break
In music, sweeter than it ever gave,
As when a breeze breathes o'er some sleeping lake,
And laughs in every wave.
“A solitary man is a God, or a beast.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
James Allen (1864–1912) British philosophical writer
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Serenity
Context: The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.
“6082. Enough’s as good as a Feast,
To one that’s not a Beast.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 1370. Enough's as good as a Feast.