Modes
- Arabic Maqam
- Dastgah
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Famous quotes containing the word modes:
“my brain
Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
Of unknown modes of being; oer my thoughts
There hung a darkness, call it solitude
Or blank desertion.”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
“The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951)