#if

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#another #assemblage #construction #during #especially

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#fifty #gives #merit #nature #twenty

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years? ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#intense #makes #newness #over #quality

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest. ↗

— Iris Chang

#california #chinese #clear #country #greatest

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#determine #get #going #gonna #i

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#i #life #music #music is my life #my life

It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before. ↗

— Iris Chang

#before #broad #difficult #discover #enough

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beliefs #books #considerations #different #down

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#i do #life #my life #need #proof