Basil Bunting Quotes
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting
Quotes to Explore
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Walter Benjamin
There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
Tasha Smith
Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
Rand Paul
I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
Tamron Hall
I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
Sam Barry
But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.
Piper Perabo
To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.
Gabrielle Roth
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
Venus Williams
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson
When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
Edie Brickell
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting