#ape

It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s. ↗

— Robert Towne

#areas #because #built #california #cape

Horses make a landscape look beautiful. ↗

— Alice Walker

#horses #landscape #look #make

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#away #begins #community #ends #into

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#ago #blank #down #empowering #exist

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#economy #every #farm #form #happens

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#escaped #fragment #goddess #had #head

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#brought #course #death #escape #idea

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. ↗

— Tom Waits

#bat #beginnings #form #hand #i

I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace. ↗

— Grete Waitz

#family #got #i #i tried #into

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#apart #estates #few #history #landscapes