"To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjaminâ€™s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery."

-- Rebecca Solnit

#World Quotes #Arms Quotes #Mystery Quotes

“Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.”
“Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.”
“In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.”
“I feel like everything has happened naturally.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. April 2, 2004.
“Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness.”
“I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. I wheeled it around the set and sold them to the crew. I was about eight years old. I always sold out and I didn't have to pay for them. It was a great deal.”
“I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.”
“I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.”

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