Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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• Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • More
  • Hollywood
  • Where

• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • World
  • Today
  • Light

• I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Reason
  • Emotion

• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Future
  • Universe
  • Curiosity

• As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Different
  • Together
  • Culture

• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Want
  • Dating

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Me
  • Team

• This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Country
  • Problems
  • Solutions

• You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Home
  • Changes

• Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Makeup
  • Bed
  • Teeth

• Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • American
  • Alone
  • Movies

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Year
  • Opportunities

• If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • People
  • Work
  • Worry

• The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Good
  • Women

• Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

  

  Jeremy Robinson
  • Free

• Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Truth
  • Understanding
  • Sword

• Writing 'Men We Reaped' broke me in different ways at different spots in the drafting process. The first draft was hard because I was just getting it out. In some ways, that draft failed. I was really just telling the story, not making assessments - this happened, then this. Just putting those facts down on paper was really painful.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Men
  • Different
  • Writing

• I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

  

  Ty Burrell
  • Good
  • Work
  • Light

• A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

  

  Maximilian Schell
  • Different
  • Relationship
  • Picture

• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Relationship
  • Conversation