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

• If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Mind
  • American
  • Fall

• I guess I look so straight and normal, nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Fall

• 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

• I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• 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

• When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out 'stop!'When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Fall

• I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the sky at night and think am I alone in the universe? Well most people get over it, but I never did and though I made a career more in physics and cosmology than astrobiology I've always had a soft spot for the subject of life because it does seem so mysterious.

  

  Paul Davies
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Night

• I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll make it to Broadway by the time I'm 40!'

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• 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