“What was it that drove these thousands into the arms of his art — what but the blissfully sensuous, searing, sense-consuming, intoxicating, hypnotically caressing, heavily upholstered — in a word, the luxurious quality of his music?”
Suffering and Greatness of Richard Wagner (1933)
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James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
The Shepherd of King Admetus http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1170/, st. 5
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Valentine and Simon, pg. 342-343
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Al giorno d'oggi, se ciò che conta davvero in una produzione è la sua promozione, indipendentemente dal genere musicale, purtroppo la qualità e la sua bellezza non hanno più molto senso.
Source: prevale.net
Laura Penny (1975) Canadian journalist
Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Two, At the Arse End of the Late Great Enlightenment, p. 58
Théophile de Donder (1872–1957) Belgian physicist
as quoted by Ilya Prigogine in his Autobiography http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1977/prigogine-autobio.html given at the occasion of Prigogine's 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Variant: Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and heavily armed.
Source: Ghost Town
“When a man is taken in a mystical sense, his qualities are often signified by his actions”
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
Vol. I, Ch. 2: Of the Prophetic Language
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733)
Context: When a man is taken in a mystical sense, his qualities are often signified by his actions, and by the circumstances of things about him. So a Ruler is signified by his riding on a beast; a Warrior and Conqueror, by his having a sword and bow; a potent man, by his gigantic stature; a Judge, by weights and measures... the affliction or persecution which a people suffers in laboring to bring forth a new kingdom, by the pain of a woman in labor to bring forth a man-child; the dissolution of a body politic or ecclesiastic, by the death of a man or beast; and the revival of a dissolved dominion, by the resurrection of the dead.