Gaston Bachelard Quotes
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Quotes to Explore
-
I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
-
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
-
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
-
The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
-
Sharing is the essence of social media.
-
I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
-
With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
-
I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
-
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
-
That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
-
I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
-
If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
-
Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
-
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
-
In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
-
I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
-
I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.
-
I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
-
In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
-
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
-
In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means.
-
What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.
-
I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.
-
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
