#moment

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you. ↗

— Rufus Wainwright

#been #believe #cuts #explore #fog

They knew who I was in Australia in 2006, but not to a great extent. Now, with the momentum of a second World Cup, it has gone crazy. ↗

— Timothy F. Cahill

#crazy #cup #extent #gone #great

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ↗

— James Cameron

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#momentary #pleasure #position #ridiculous #sex

The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me. ↗

— Kate Capshaw

#becomes #me #moment #risky #says

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#beginning #every #moment #most #notable

I am against the whole cliche of the moment. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#am #cliche #i #i am #moment

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #curtain #first #had #i

While at the same time knowing that once he had gone down that road, once it was clear that his life was never a peaceful one from that moment on. He always knew that there was somebody that would like to kill him. ↗

— Keith Carradine

#clear #down #gone #had #him

The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukemia. ↗

— Jose Carreras

#cured #doctor #happiest #i #leukemia