Mutsuo Furukawa Quotes & Sayings

With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?' — Joel Sternfeld

Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I read these lines a certain sadness enters my soul. I get so preoccupied with the details and pressure of my schedule, with the hurry and worry of life, that I miss the song of goodness which is waiting to be sung through me. — Joyce Rupp

With Twitter, it's a little harder to tell jokes that somebody hasn't heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their opinions and telling jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody's already done some version of what you're trying to do. — Frank Caliendo

Respected political and military leaders saw the world as a Darwinian battleground, where the fittest race would emerge triumphant from a savage fight to the death. — Paul Ham

When you have an asteroid threatening Earth, it's uncertain where it's going to hit until the last minute; the decision to take action has to be coordinated by the international community. — Rusty Schweickart

A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot — Phil Robertson

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists. — Tommy Rettig

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious. — Charles Munch

Belagren: I can't build a whole religion on a probablity, Madalan.
Madalan: Not when sex, drugs and human sacrifices work so much better. — Jennifer Fallon

Sex is merely a genetic joint venture. the process of choosing somebody to have sex with, which used to be known as falling in love, is mysterious, cerebral, and highly selective. — Matt Ridley

I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical. — Colin Firth

You can FEEL the wave of emotion online when something is about to go viral, good or bad. A scientist I met once mathematically compared internet behavior to swarm behavior seen in starlings or locusts. — Felicia Day

It was a newsflash to me that dating as a pre-thirty divorcette was as bad as having herpes. — Stephanie Klein