#presents

I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#artist #because #being #changed #follow

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful #best #free #illusion #moment

But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#beautiful #bought #car #house #i

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#also #always #every #every man #himself

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action. ↗

— Raymond Holliwell

#cause #coming #desires #heart #inner

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#also #away #before #causes #crisis

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#does #exclusive #finite #island #itself

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength. ↗

— Steve Albini

#bands #contract #exact #hundred #label

To get involved with a cause, you really have to become aware of it. You have to go on the ground and see with your own eyes, the people who have been affected by it, their process in how they're combating it, and what the organization represents. ↗

— David Arquette

#aware #become #been #cause #combating

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#believe #believing #enough #law #miracles