Grappes De Balais Quotes & Sayings

From this arises the belief that the order of nature is all that there really is. But to draw that conclusion would be a mistake, for two reasons. First, the Lebenswelt is irreducible. We understand and relate to it using concepts of agency and accountability that have no place in the physical sciences; to use the idiom of Sellars, the Lebenswelt exists in "the space of reasons," not in "the space of law. — Roger Scruton

On the rue de la Crosse, the Hotel of Bees becomes almost weightless for a moment, lifted in a spiral of flame, before it begins to rain the pieces back to the earth — Anthony Doerr

Many people tell me that I should become a politician but I tell them no I want to do something good for the nation. — Amit Abraham

To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different. — Harriet Lerner

Anger is temporary insanity. — John S.C. Abbott

Each person comes to have this musical experience, this moment with us, where they get to sink into our world for a little while. It's this very unhurried world. It's fairly quiet, it's contemplative, but it can be quite panoramic. I think people think interesting thoughts at our shows, and they go rather deeply into some personal experience of their own. I'm really proud that our music seems to connect, because it's not for everybody. But for the people that our music works for, it really gets down pretty deep in there. — Gillian Welch

Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art. — Joshua Reynolds

Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all? — Sallust

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It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat — Elizabeth Gilbert

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man. — Robert Green Ingersoll