#rises

I'd like to be that chameleon. That's really ultimately what I want to hear from people eventually: 'I really love when I see him in stuff, but I never know he's gonna be here.' I want to be that actor that surprises you when you see him in a project, and you go, 'Yes! I love that guy. He's in this? Awesome.' ↗

— David Gallagher

#awesome #chameleon #eventually #go #gonna

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious. ↗

— Charles Munch

#art #define #domain #expresses #far

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#books #in the past #past #store #surprises

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts. ↗

— Philip Roth

#audacity #authority #beauty #belief #contest

During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#bring #demand #during #encountered #enterprises

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#cannot #crises #firsthand #handled #history

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#life

Sin sorpresas, aunque sean disagredables, nadie estaria dispuesto a vivir. ↗

— David Olguin

#philosophy #surprises #life

Well, we all like things to be predictable, don't we? We expect things to be safe and to keep on happening just the way they always have. We expect the sun to rise in the morning. We expect to get up, survive the day and finish up back in bed at the end of it, ready to start all over again the next day. But maybe that's just a trick we play on ourselves, our way of making life seem ordinary. Because the truth is, life is so extraordinary that for most of hte time we can't bring ourselves to look at it. It's too bright and it hurts our eyes. The fact of the matter is that nothing is ever certain. But most people never find that out until the ground suddenly disappears from beneath their feet. ↗

— Steve Voake

#surprises #life

Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers. ↗

— James Kelman

#crises #emotional #english-literature #fortune #money