James Sinks

“Another old friend who came to pay his respects [to the recently elected Urban VIII] and collect his reward was Buonarroti, who, like Strozzi, judged the new court guilty of excess. "Music always and always poetry / music and poetry morning and night / music in every time and season." "I would rather hear frogs sing.”
― J.L. Heilbron, Galileo

“The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see it for what it was.”
― Paul La Farge, The Night Ocean

“If you cannot sing like the lark and the nightingale, sing like the raven and the frogs in the pond. They sing as God has given them to sing.”
― Thomas à Kempis, Sermons to the Novices Regular

“I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.”
― Herman Melville