In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.
There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.
At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.
Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.
I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.
I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.