Quotes About Things

Dis-moi, rose, d'où vient qu'en toi-même enclose, ta lente essence impose à cet espace en prose tous ces transports aérien? Combien de fois cet air prétend que les choses le trouent, ou, avec une moue, il se montre amer. Tandis qu'autour de ta chair, rose, il fait la roue.

The possibility of intensifying things so that they reveal their essence depends so much on our participation. When things sense our avid interest, they pull themselves together without delay and are all that they can be, and in everything new the old is then whole, only different and vastly heightened.

If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.

you are ever again the wave     sweeping through all things     RAINER MARIA RILKE, BOOK OF HOURS

God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.

We won't ruin Mars," said the captain. "It's too big and too good." "You think not? We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.

At least you were a fool about the right things," said Faber.

Ask me, then, if I believe in the spirit of the things as they were used, and I'll say yes. They're all here. All the things which had uses. All the mountains which had names. And we'll never be able to use them without feeling uncomfortable. And somehow the mountains will never sound right to us; we'll give them new names, but the old names are there, somewhere in time, and the mountains were shaped and seen under those names.

that. Who refers only to persons; which only to things; as, The boy who was drowned, The umbrella which I lost. The relative that may refer to both persons and things; as, The man that I saw. The hat that I bought.

It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what have children to do with such things?

Allí, donde el aire cambia el color de las cosas; donde se ventila la vida como si fiera un murmullo; como si fuera un puro murmullo de la vida...

I need those little pushy things on the side!...BUTTONS! -Julia

The subject matter of poetry is not that "collection of solid, static objects extended in space" but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes; and so reality is not that external scene but the life that is lived in it. Reality is things as they are.

unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as elsewhere.

Can things whose end is always dust and disappointment be the real goods which our souls require?

To be honest, I don't think so. I think what's made me better is success and money. Lack of success made me desperate and crazy. All the bad things I've done in my life came out of that desperation.

you can't help but feel uncomfortable," because it becomes clear that fear of failure "keeps us from attempting great things . . . and life gets dull. Amazing things stop happening." But if you can get past that fear, Dugan said, "Impossible things suddenly become possible.

There are a million things a coach can't control. Brooks, an obsessive planner, was going to make sure he was on top of what he could control.

I guess I'd rather live in a world where bad things happen for some reason than no reason.

Dumb and bold things are best accomplished drunk, we figured, so we went deep into the popskull.

I LIKE TENNIS BALLS! TENNIS BALLS ARE ROUND! I LIKE ROUND THINGS!

Some people speculate things that we might do, but we're just continually to organically execute our increase in accommodations on our main platform.

We like selling experience versus selling things. We also believe there's a large body of customers who are looking for value more than just saving a dollar on a hotel room."

I wonder why things have to change