Duyvis Wiener Quotes & Sayings

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you. — David Ogden Stiers

Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home. — Amanda Harlech

With the rationalization of culture, and the corresponding disenchantment of religious ideas and beliefs, the modern world is ordered increasingly upon instrumentally rational grounds, and hence organizes itself less and less according to value-rational principles. This leads in turn to a world in which social action is separated increasingly from the sphere of (ethical) meaning, as particular (often technical) means are employed to realize specific ends regardless of the ethical significance or meaning of such action. — Nicholas Gane

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw. — James Merrill

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world. — Geezer Butler

Make love to me," she whispered. "That's my plan." "You think you can?" she asked. He smiled along her neck. "I think so. — Lucian Bane

Who does not dislike a "boneless" hand extended as though it were a spray of sea-weed, or a miniature boiled pudding? — Emily Post

The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity. — William Ramsay

It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else. — Markus Zusak

I'm cautious with the love word because I really know what it means. I've been there, done that and I know what the implications are. I also know that people say they love people when they don't, and it often results in tears and avoidance of bars, supermarkets, even whole towns in extreme cases. — Jessica Thompson

One day I was in an airport rushing to catch a plane. I was sweating and puffing when I looked to my right and saw a man walking half as fast as I was, but going faster. He was walking on a moving sidewalk. When we walk in the Spirit, eh comes underneath us and bears us along. We're still walking, but we walk dependent on him. — Tony Evans

Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true. — Sarah Michelle Gellar

In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk. — Rob Lowe

During prom season, I travel around the country with a 20-by-24 camera - which is logistically complicated - and photograph proms. My husband made a film of it. — Mary Ellen Mark