"The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description."

-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Speed Quotes #Century Quotes #Description Quotes

“The trouble with most people is they think there's only one right way to do anything.”
“As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a sexy brain, I feel like the story is a specimen in a sealed glass jar and not a living, breathing creature I want to take by the hand and talk to for hours on end.”
“Amadeus Mozart is to music something like Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was to literature. They are people who created something that nobody before them had. Absolute geniuses. You can recognize their harmonies among thousands.”
“Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.”

Source : Michael Dirda (2007). “Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life”, p.14, Macmillan
“I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.”
“Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book...”
“In our world, love, sex, music, and dance are all integrated into one experience. Love, and the arts of music and dance go together.”
“The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.”

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