Walter Benjamin Flaneur Quotes & Sayings

SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito — Reiko Chiba

They tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once. — Ilona Andrews

I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling sounds from the world around us is a great way to cement that illusion because you can go out and record an elevator in George Lucas's house or something, and it will have that motor sound. — Ben Burtt

Some days are a total What the hell was I thinking? — Kim Gruenenfelder

I'm guilty of going to a fitting, then going out to buy the same outfit. It's been a problem for my bank account! — Blake Lively

We walked where the ancient pier juts into the sea.
Stood on the rim of the pool, by the circle
of black boulders. No one saw we were there
and everyone who had ever been there
stood silently in air.
Where else do we ever have to go, and why? — Naomi Shihab Nye

How can I leave my mark on the world, I thought, unless I get out there first and see it? — Phil Knight

What a drug this little book is; to imbibe it is to find oneself presuming his process. I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself. It is not mere envy but a delusional quickening in the blood. — Patti Smith

Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no. — Steven Soderbergh

In the morning I woke like a sloth in the fog. — Leslie Connor

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman. — Chloe Grace Moretz

I'd felt like crying, but cry once and it's all over: if you cry, the reliable men will despise you, and then they will not be reliable any more. — Margaret Atwood