"My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Estrella Mountains, south of downtown. I've always thought of God in those terms."

-- Barry Goldwater

#Mother Quotes #Wall Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.”
“My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.”
“What was said before is not important.”

Source : "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. May 23, 2004.
“The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.”
“You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.”
“You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no ideas except in things.”
“I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.”
“I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.”

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