Henry V - Eve of Saint Crispin’s Day speech
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Postgraduate researcher in The School of Pharmacy at The University of Nottingham.
Vices include épée, wine, opera and Evensong.
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“The trick for me has always been to say ‘You should put on your nicest clothes [to the opera]’, not for my sake but for your own sake, to celebrate that opera is something special.”
— Kasper Holten, Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House talking to the FT Weekend Magazine. (via operaandme)
At the weekend my sister found shoes for her bridesmaids. They were not impressed.
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Thea Gilmore & Sandy Denny - Glistening Bay
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Broadly speaking, the problem is that the religious mainstream establishment maintains a Janus-faced commitment to both medieval doctrines and public pronouncements about inclusivity and moderation; agnostics and more liberal believers promote an intellectualised version of religion, which both reduces faith to a thin gruel and fails to reflect the reality of faith on the ground; while the new atheists are spiritually tone-deaf, fixated on the superstitious side of religion to the exclusion of its more interesting and valuable aspects.
A plague on all their houses: all are guilty of becoming entrenched in unsustainable positions. For there to be movement, all are going to have to recognise their failings and shift somewhat. The battlelines need to be redrawn so that futile skirmishes can be avoided and the real fights can be fought.
”— Heathen’s progress, part one: stalemate | Julian Baggini | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Steve Jobs at home in 1982
“This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.”
— Steve Jobs
“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.”
— Peace Like A River (via maygunbeth)
(Source: sidecarsareforbtches, via 12minds)
“In 1910 a group of English friends, including Virginia Woolf and her brother Adrian Stephen, pretending to be the Prince of Abyssinia and his entourage obtained permission to visit HMS Dreadnought, then one of the world’s most powerful warships, in Weymouth in what became known as the Dreadnought hoax. Each time the Commander showed them a marvel of the ship, they murmured the phrase bunga, bunga! This became a popular catchphrase for a time.”
— Wikipedia, on the root of the phrase Bunga bunga.
“The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself, they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”
— C.S. Lewis (via congratulationstomeetyou)
Pink Martini - Over The Valley (by componentgeek)
