"[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven……" — Henry Adams
"[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore."
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- Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme. — John Szarkowski
- When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending.… — Arsene Wenger
- Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There… — Jody Lynn Nye
- I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the… — Ian Paisley
- Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote… — Thom Yorke
- Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language… — James Madison