Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes

It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.

Cecily von Ziegesar

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• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • True

• I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • House
  • Fall
  • See

• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Fall
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

  

  Beck
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Let

• Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

  

  Tacitus
  • Fall
  • Service
  • Chance

• If we are weak, our country will be in jeopardy. It is the living lesson of human history of the rise and fall of nations. In order for a country not to fall, it must cultivate its own strength.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Country
  • History
  • Fall

• That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Different
  • Done
  • Running

• Scorpio Island, everyone calls it - they say if you fall in love in Ibiza, then it lasts forever.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Fall
  • Forever

• I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if you're not in the club, they're not going to let you join. It's like The Turin Shroud: don't touch it because it might fall apart.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Music
  • Art
  • High

• It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Alone
  • Fall

• People always look at reality shows and think, 'How do they fall in love so quickly?' When you are quarantined with the same people, the emotions you normally feel after a year come within a week.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Reality
  • Fall

• I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man', and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • Fall
  • Wolf

• Production and consumption of carbohydrates is so well regulated that there is a constant blood sugar level; any accidental increase or fall in blood sugar is rapidly compensated.

  

  Bernardo Houssay
  • Fall

• When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called 'Pop It,' where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It's a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I'm stressed.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Game

• In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring.

  

  James Stephens
  • Die
  • Fall
  • Evil

• Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really is like you're still there.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

  

  Joe Mantegna
  • Fall

• Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion ... but the blessing which rewards the triumph of energy and will.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • Character
  • Energy
  • Fall

• I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• It's something I've enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I'm someone other than who I am. I've always felt claustrophobic in one sense of identity. If anything, I've had to work to develop a sense of my own identity. I used to really hate it when people defined me.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
  • Work
  • Hate

• It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Fall
  • Stills
  • Physics