#ow

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'. ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#continents #countries #different #different countries #down

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear. ↗

— Ray Davies

#crucial #die #disappear #heritage #music

What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man. ↗

— Ray Davies

#air #better #better man #blow #come

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#i #i think #image #looks #obsessed

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#between #characters #common #common denominator #denominator

But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#analyze #believe #choose #film #follow

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#feel #help #hoping #i #impertinence

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#genial #gift #gives #greatest #greatest gift

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#inevitably #inexperienced #influences #quality #said

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#conservatism #conserving #know #secondhand #their