“My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.” FirstsFatherNamesWalksKnownMiddleChosenHillsAncestorSolitaryChaptersVersesSelected Author:Immanuel Velikovsky
“Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?” SpiritualArtistForceHeavenWalksVisionDivineGeniusConsciousEarsPaintChosenPainterVanityLandscapeUnconsciousUrgesAngleReal BeautyEmulation Author:Walter J. Phillips
“I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.” EnoughAgeJobsWalksPayRecordsLessonsPaperStudiosCornersChosenFortunateRoutesCurtainsAmazing ThingsAround The CornerRecording StudioMusic Lessons Author:Booker T. Jones
“I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.” ThinkingMenWantedGirlWalksIndustryBe GoodProfessionChosenKitchenBeing A Woman Author:April Bloomfield