Mugi K On Quotes & Sayings

That's what art is, he said, the story of a life in all its particularity. It's the only thing that really is particular and personal. It's the expression and, at the same time, the fabric of the particular. And what do you mean by the fabric of the particular? I asked, supposing he would answer: Art. I was also thinking, indulgently, that we were pretty drunk already and that it was time to go home. But my friend said: What I mean is the secret story ... The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. But every damn thing matters! It's just that we don't realize. We tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, we don't even realize that's a lie. — Roberto Bolano

I don't differentiate much between thoughts and words. To be
honest, I also have no high opinion of thoughts. I have a better opinion
of things. — Hermann Hesse

The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success. — Lucien Bouchard

It ain't my cup of meat. — Bob Dylan

For every quote, there is one that challenges it. — R. Alistair

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. — Tom Stoppard

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus. — John Steinbeck

The twins too, they've never cared a hoot what they looked like. They spent so much time staring at each other's faces before they were born they can go the rest of their lives passing up mirrors without a glance. — Barbara Kingsolver

I like it when people come to see me again, but you end up playing to that person only. You know there's other people out there, but you also know that the person who came to see you again is there. You're like, "I hope he's happy again." — Mitch Hedberg

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world. — Eglantyne Jebb

they greet those who are cast down, and those in heart, those troubled adn those filled with desire, those who are overjoyed and those disconsolate, all lovers. may all herein find strength against inconstancy, against unfairness and despite and loss and pain and all the bitterness of loving. — Joseph Bedier

three-legged stool — John Henry Clarke

The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And that means staying near them, because they speak quietly and infrequently; they are afraid to speak out, they lack confidence in themselves because they have been broken and oppressed. But if we listen to them, they will bring us back to the essential. — Jean Vanier