Stanziale Stephen Quotes & Sayings

Be the voice of night and Florida in my ear.
Use dusky words and dusky images.
Darken your speech.
Speak, even, as if I did not hear you speaking,
But spoke for you perfectly in my thoughts,
Conceiving words,
As the night conceives the sea-sounds in silence,
And out of their droning sibilants makes
A serenade. — Wallace Stevens

When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense. — Annie Dillard

The best thing I ever bought is my dog Stitch. He's the best friend & companion. — Travie McCoy

We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree. — Robert Irwin

So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy! — Friedrich Nietzsche

If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me. — Vijay Kumar

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York. — Serge Schmemann

political life came to be dominated by a pattern of interest-group politics that the era's political scientists came to call "pluralist," a form of democracy marked more by competition among organizations and lobbyists than by a sense of the public interest. — Ira Katznelson

I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get. — Bruce Gilden