Octavio Paz Quotes
Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.Octavio Paz
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
Irvin Mayfield -
There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
Eddie Redmayne -
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
Val Kilmer -
Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
Gary Sinise -
I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
Ralph Fiennes -
Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
Edgar Winter -
I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
Rachel Sklar -
It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
Edmund White -
I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
Pat Metheny -
Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
Ian Mckellen
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes -
Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.
Aaron Neville -
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
Jack Henry Abbott -
Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
Zack Greinke -
I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.
Edith Widder -
One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
Yitzhak Navon
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You lil Fraggle Rock, beat you wit a padded lock
Nicki Minaj -
Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.
Astro Teller -
It is true that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
Francis Bacon -
Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
Octavio Paz