Heatherwick Pier Quotes & Sayings

All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they. — Walt Whitman

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties. — George Shearing

When you're a mile outside the limits of your competence, there is some comfort to be had in sounding like you know what you're doing. — Mike Carey

You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists. — Demetri Martin

We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it. — Lauren Ambrose

Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear," was her fancy. "Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don't know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan. — Khaled Hosseini

It's good to be fit and look good, especially when you are a part of the glamour industry. — Mona Singh

You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down. — Malcolm Forbes

Tomorrow, a thought not in mind of most intimates
Not in vain, not in every censure, not a scarf on a tree
Tomorrow, is a clock, nothing more,
A cup of tea or something smaller, maybe
It's something we forgot about with further bills and other memories — Yehya El Kouzi

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. — T. S. Eliot

I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and then I make a shot. So generally, in [the] proof sheets, there are only three or four really concentrated efforts to take a photograph. It's not like a professional kind of person who sets it up so every photograph looks really cool. — Dennis Hopper

A black telephone
receiver was stuffed in the small space between his ear and his
shoulder; he motioned for them to sit in the stiff wooden armchairs in
front of his desk. Moments later he hung up the phone, the base
ringing lightly from the impact.
"So you're still in a mess, aren't you?" he said. — M.L. Terese

I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film. — Topher Grace