Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Quotes
Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.
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I like getting to the meat of things. You can't get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hone a person. I like to make eye contact.
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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
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I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?
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I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.
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Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.
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For my everyday look, I don't like going anywhere without eye makeup.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.
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There are differences between us. But it doesn't make sense to emphasize that, because my future and yours is connected with everyone else's. So we have to take seriously our concern for all of humanity. When we focus on our individuality, humanity inevitably suffers. And once humanity suffers, each one of us will also suffer.
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Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.
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In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.
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Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.
