Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

Virginia Woolf

As a twig is bent the tree inclines.

Virgil

I join you, therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character

Thomas Jefferson

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

Johann von Goethe

Life is short; live it up.

Nikita Khrushchev

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Salvatore Satta

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Judith Rossner

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Roger Tory Peterson

We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.

Harvey Weinstein

one transcendent kissthat later makes lovers takesoft breaths, holding hands

Lori L. Otto

Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.

Taylor Lautner

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson