Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Context: Eye without lid, mind without any dream —These are of minstrels lacking minstrelsy,
Of an earth in which the first leaf is the tale
Of leaves, in which the sparrow is a birdOf stone, that never changes. Bethou him, you
And you, bethou him and bethou. It is
A sound like any other. It will end.
“You can give him a ukulele and he can make it sound like a Stradivarius.”
Bob Ezrin (1949) Canadian music producer and keyboardist
Regarding David Gilmour <br class="br"> Guitar World article on Bob Ezrin by Alan Di Perna, Feb. 1993 http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/ptr/pfloyd/interview/cc.html (url accessed on October 16, 2008)
Theodore Sturgeon book Venus Plus X
Source: Venus Plus X (1960), Section 32 (p. 101)
Diana Wynne Jones book The Homeward Bounders
Source: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 131.
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Negotiating
Essays (1625)
Context: If you would work any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him; or his ends, and so persuade him or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him or those that have interest in him, and so govern him. In dealing with cunning persons, we must ever consider their ends, to interpret their speeches; and it is good to say little to them, and that which they least look for. In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: Epigrams, p. 363
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 1.
Tulsidas (1532–1623) Hindu poet-saint
Quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 5
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
Post-re-election interview with Garnett D. Horner, The Washington Star-News (9 November 1972), p. 1.
1970s
