Dostayevski Quotes & Sayings

The gift is contact, sensuality: you will be touching what I have touched, a third skin unites us. — Roland Barthes

And if, as all philosophers on the subject have noted, art is a human activity that relies on the senses to reach the soul, did it not also stand to reason that dogs
at least dogs of Mr. Bones' caliber
would have it in them to feel a similar aesthetic impulse? Would they not, in other words, be able to appreciate art? As far as Willy knew, no one had ever thought of this before. Did that make him the first man in recorded history to believe such a thing was possible? No matter. It was an idea whose time had come. If dogs were beyond the pull of oil paintings and string quartets, who was to say they wouldn't respond to an art based on the sense of smell? Why not an olfactory art? Why not an art for dogs that dealt with the world as dogs knew it? — Paul Auster

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to. — John McLaughlin

People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I punch a lot of guys on set. It's much easier than in real life as your hands don't hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss. — Timothy Olyphant

Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of. — Robert Dessaix

His eyes became wild, searching for reassurance in the faces surrounding him. Instead he saw the opposite - awful affirmation of his fears. — Michael Punke

Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers. — Ashton Kutcher