#epiphany

I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cake #chicago #chocolate #chocolate cake #dessert

Whose little boy are you? ↗

— James Baldwin

#black #church #coming-of-age #epiphany #god

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#art #creativity #epiphanic-moment #epiphany #inspirational

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#dreams #epiphany #re-direction #re-thinking #dreams

I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness. ↗

— Tayeb Salih

#baptism #epiphany #immersion-experience #experience

For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back. ↗

— Damon Suede

#gay #intimacy #love #relationships #sex

Well, Rhoda was, I think, the last actress that we saw. There had been so many wonderful actresses who were close, really close. But there was no magical epiphany. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#been #close #epiphany #had #i

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#destination #epiphany #i #i always #liked

Without the quest, there can be no epiphany. ↗

— Constantine E. Scaros

#inspirational #philosophical #quest #art

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking ↗

— Albert Einstein

#epiphany #humor #inspiration #humor