Quotes about had (9 Quotes)




    I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan 'As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends.' My reaction was, 'I wonder who said that I wish I had.' In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), 'It was Littlewood who said...'


    My favorite tracks are 'Sea of Joy', 'Can't Find My Way Home,' 'Presence of the Lord' and 'Had to Cry Today' -- all four are classics. If Blind Faith had not been such a brief thing, would probably all have been released as singles. Great shame.



    There is a great role for the president to play in suggesting bridging ideas, saying 'Had you thought of it this way If you got this, could you take less on that' -- that sort of role, which is an extremely important role.

    Our awareness of time affects how we think and act. This is illustrated by the story about the clock in a restaurant window. It 'had stopped a few minutes past noon. One day a friend asked the owner if he knew the clock was not running. 'Yes,' replied the restaurant man, 'but you would be surprised to know how many people look at that clock, think they are hungry, and come in to get something to eat. 'If only there were some kind of divine timepiece that would arouse a spiritual hunger in people.

    Composer, organist, bass and countertenor singer. He was one of the greatest composers of the baroque period and one of the greatest of all English composers. Rreference to Purcell by James II's Attorney-General, Roger North, succintly sums up his stature 'the Orpheus Britannicus ... a greater musical genius England never had'. He excelled in every branch of music to which he turned his hand. Purcell showed exceptional skill in the flexible setting of the English language, and some of his solo song-scenas (like Mad Bess and The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation) are remarkable example of dramatised declamation.



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