"[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality"

-- Anton Webern

#Eye Quotes #Reality Quotes #Years Quotes

“The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.”

Source : "This much I know: Joshua Ferris" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.
“I want Pucci woman to be a Pucci girl. That's number one, because I think she should have that vibe that corresponds with today. Emilio Pucci - the house is, I think, 63 years old now. It's an old house. The Pucci woman from the beginning would be 80 years old or something today, so I've kind of had to update her.”
“We all have nightmares, we all wake up, we all have certain ideas of something that could be hiding around the corner and the question of does that really exist, but we get on with our lives.”
“If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.”
“Adam Johnson was a revolution when he came on”
“We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has ***** been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!”
“This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated.”
“War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.”

Source : "The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq" by Ron Kovic, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2006.

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