Mark Van Doren Quotes
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
Quotes to Explore
-
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
-
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
-
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
-
I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
-
I'm here today because I hated everything else.
-
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
-
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
-
Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
-
When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
-
For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
-
Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
-
The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
-
To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
-
We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
-
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
-
It's not my style to judge anybody.
-
Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
-
I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
-
My mom is very excited for the fact that I got signed and, of course, being a mom, she's going to be a little worried.
-
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
-
Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.
-
If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.
-
For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
-
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
