"The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path."

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Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.100, Univ of California Press

Michel de Certeau

#Art Quotes #Phrases Quotes #Detours Quotes

“I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.”
“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”
“Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.”
“I don't sit in my room and hide the whole time. I think people know my spirit is real.”
“Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things; otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.”

Source : Interview with Conrad Bodman, 2001.
“The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.”
“We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.”

Source : "Katherine Heigl positively glows". Interview with William Keck, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 20, 2007.

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