#vie

So it's not all that important who people really are. Honestly, you could end up spending your life with almost anyone, and it wouldn't matter who - because the person they are to you is totally dependent on your view of them. ↗

— Steph Bowe

#personality #viewpoint #attitude

Etre vivant, cela veut dire être conscient de sa vie, de son destin personnel, et répandre la Vie autour de soi. Etre vivant, cela veut dire être libéré de toute attitude unilatérale, de tout fanatisme et être ouvert à tout ce qui est bon et grand, être préservé de toute sclérose et de toute petrification du corps comme de l´esprit. Etre vivant, cela signifie être toujours prêt à apprendre et, si besoin est, à changer de méthode et de ne tenir aucune limitation pour insurmontable. Cela signifie prendre part à tout, entendre en tout gronder le torrent d´abondance et de plénitude, avoir part au royaume de vie dans tout ce qui se passe, aimer et louer tout ce qui est véritablement vie et se désaltérer auprès d´elle comme à une source rafraîchissante. ↗

— Karl Otto Schmidt

#attitude

I think I can say without fear of inaccuracy that description is my strong point. Possibly this fact is central to my feeling excluded and so on in what might be called “the scene.” There appears to be a particular divide in literature that has “description” and all it implies, as its focus. Some people hate “fancy writing,” and just want to “cut to the chase,” and so on. This attitude deeply irritates me. If you can’t try and take words to their limit in the field of literature, then where can you? I actually think that variety is good, but it’s usually the enemies of “fancy writing” who also seem to deplore variety and believe that there’s only one way to write—without adverbs etc. etc. ↗

— Quentin S. Crisp

#attitude

Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful teaching studio; wrote thousands of letters; traveled widely; attended the theater religiously; played cards, billiards, and bocce; and rode horseback for exercise. Not bad for someone portrayed as a giggling idiot in the movies. ↗

— Robert Greenberg

#movies

Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#album #any #arrangements #arranger #band

Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all these gems, maybe something to hold them in a continuity that I can comprehend. ↗

— Andrew X. Pham

#catfish-and-mandala #change #past #vietnam #vietnamese-literature

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#actors #directors #movies #beauty

The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#review #the-new-yorker #beauty

I kept interrupting the movie by asking a lot of questions that Xavier managed to answer with endless patience. "How old do you think Bell is supposed to be?" "I don't know, probably our age." "I think the beast is sweet, don't you?" "Do I have to answer that?" "Why does the crockery talk?" "Because they're really the prince's servants that the beggar woman put a spell on." Xavier frowned suddenly and looked mortified. "I can't believe I know that. ↗

— Alexandra Adornetto

#bethany-church #xavier-woods #age

His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#beautiful #beauty