#Good Friend Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Air Quotes
“I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too." What?" I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.”
“Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping, free of ego, free of the self-contraction. And through that opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity; who can say otherwise, when time itself is supendend in the clearing that great art creates in your awareness?”
“If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.”
“I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don't see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that.”
“When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.”
“One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.”
Source : John Gay (1779). “Fables ... In one volume complete”, p.103
“If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.”
“Nothing changes without blood flowing.”
Elizabeth Bishop Poet
Ezra Pound Poet
Helen Vendler Poet
John Ashbery Poet
Marianne Moore Poet
Robert Frost Poet
T. S. Eliot Playwright
Walt Whitman Poet
William Carlos Williams Poet
