#sence

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#becomes #capturing #dance #easy #essence

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#again #back #came #comes #energy

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#being #coming #essence #glory #knees

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#hearing #i #i always #man #poet

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. ↗

— George MacDonald

#delights #equal #few #presence #utterly

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy. ↗

— David Mamet

#philosophy

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#concert #day #down #easy #ever

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. ↗

— Karl Marx

#meaning #meaning of #opposition #peace #socialism

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#bottoms #cosmic #essence #female #life

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. ↗

— Rollo May

#absence #ahead #capacity #despair #move