Passages Quotes - Page 23

• I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage.

  Nicholson Baker

  Narrative, Way, Firsts

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.77, Vintage

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• It is really refreshing to hear a big band that has the ability to execute ensemble passages with swing and precision while retaining a "small group" feel during the solo sections. This kind of "tight, loose" approach is seldom heard in big bands, whether they are professional or not. Now, all the band needs is to hit the road and take the music around the world!

  John Patitucci

  Swings, Groups, Needs

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• An ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him: as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything happens to him contrary to his expectation, he at once concludes that the whole universe is evil. If, however, he would take into consideration the whole universe, form an idea of it, and comprehend what a small portion he is of the Universe, he will find the truth. There are many ... passages in the books of the prophets expressing the same idea.

  Maimonides

  Believe, Book, Men

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.268, Courier Corporation

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• Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of circumstance. True Enduring represents not merely the passage of time, . . . but the Passage of Soul.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Cells, Soul, Endurance

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• How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?

  Clive Barker

  Eye, Years, Secret

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• Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Love, Biblical, Hatred

  Karen Armstrong (2011). “Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life”, p.50, Random House

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• Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

  Peter Morgan

  Phones, Phone Calls, Fantastic

  Source: deadline.com

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• It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

  Mark Twain

  Self, Expression, Hands

  Mark Twain (1992). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869”, p.4, Univ of California Press

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• Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

  Francis Bacon

  Book, Names, Stories

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.107

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• I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Couple, Book, Writing

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.

  Billy Corgan

  Entertainment, Different, News

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.

  William Eggleston

  Eye, Attention, Something New

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.

  Sean Penn

  Country, Comfort, Testing Yourself

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be mysterious and unpleasant, but in the end they excrete a great deal of material whose successful passage is crucial to our nation's survival. This is Congress's duty.

  Jon Stewart

  Successful, Survival, President

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• When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between the conscious management of what you're doing and this state. . . . I would say that it's related to daydreaming. When I feel really engaged with a passage, I become so lost in it that I'm unaware of my real surroundings, totally involved in the pictures and sounds that that passage evokes.

  John Hersey

  Dream, Real, Writing

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• We found in the course of our journey the convenience of having disencumbered ourselves, by laying aside whatever we could spare; for it is not to be imagined without experience, how in climbing crags and treading bogs, and winding through narrow and obstructed passages, a little bulk will hinder, and a little weight will burden; or how often a man that has pleased himself at home with his own resolution, will, in the hour of darkness and fatigue, be content to leave behind him everything but himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Journey, Men

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.24, Canongate Books

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• "Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign of success, NOT of failure! So if we are uncomfortably outside our comfort zones, then than means we are growing!!! And THAT is cause for celebration!" (modified from a passage in Roz Savage's "Rowing the Atlantic")

  Roz Savage

  Mean, Comfort, Savages

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• The digital artwork is characterized not by the technology which delivers it, but by the "passage" itself.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Technology, Digital, Artwork

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels"". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I believe in literary form - I'll use my life as material for art (I don't know how not to do this) and I'll use art as a way of exploring that passage of life into art and vice versa, but that's not the same thing as thinking that any of the details of my life are interesting or relevant on their own.

  Ben Lerner

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a long journey was lost, sleep had not descended over it in one fell swoop: it had continued to steal a march here and there, in a discontinuous way, and over short distances, like a laborer who feels his cart jolt on a section of Roman road that crosses his field.

  Julien Gracq

  Distance, Sleep, Journey

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• We are not heavenly destined for a particular road; every road is our destiny; every path and every passage is our fate.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fate, Destiny, Path

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• Renormalization is just a stop-gap procedure. There must be some fundamental change in our ideas, probably a change just as fundamental as the passage from Bohr's orbit theory to quantum mechanics. When you get a number turning out to be infinite which ought to be finite, you should admit that there is something wrong with your equations, and not hope that you can get a good theory just by doctoring up that number.

  Paul Dirac

  Ideas, Numbers, Orbit

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• ...the Bible itself is less read than preached, less interpreted than brandished. Increasingly, pastors may drape a limply bound Book over the edges of the pulpit as they depart from it. Members of the congregation carry Bibles to church services; the paster announces a long passage text for his sermon and waits for people to find it, then reads only the first verse of it before he takes off. The Book has become a talisman.

  Harold Bloom

  Book, Past, Church Service

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• With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

  Peter Gay

  Years, Generations, Kitsch

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• The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery of passages which lead everywhere and nowhere. The ideas are presented, stood on their head, dissolved into fragments, until the ultimate message becomes the connections of all things great and small, a chain of being which cannot be secured until the last note is in place.

  Russell Sherman

  Ideas, Pages, Lasts

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