"Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance"

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Source : "Privy counsels" by A.C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

Junichiro Tanizaki

#Song Quotes #Listening Quotes #Soup Quotes

“You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.”
“To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.”
“It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.”
“I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.”

Source : "Producer Dino de Laurentiis Passes Away at Age 91" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 11, 2010.
“Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.”

Source : "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.
“Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the protagonist in the songs.”
“Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.”
“The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?”

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