Quotes About Things

No infravalores nunca la gran importancia de las pequeñas cosas". -La Biblioteca de la Medianoche-

Onderschat nooit het belang van kleine dingen.

Onderschat nooit het grote belang van kleine dingen.

Never underestimate the big importance of small things, Mrs Elm had said.

Never underestimate the big importance of small things,' Mrs Elm

Never underestimate the importance of small things,' Mrs Elm said.

I would prefer not to: this sentence speaks in the intimacy of our nights: negative preference, the negation that effaces preference and is effaced therein: the neutrality of that which is not among the things there are to do.

The thing can never be separated from someone who perceives it; nor can it ever actually be in itself because its articulations are the very ones of our existence, and because it is posited at the end of a gaze or at the conclusion of a sensory exploration that invests it with humanity. To taking up or the achievement by us of an alien intention or inversely the accomplishment beyond our perceptual powers and as a coupling of our body wit the things.

So it is fairly widely recognised that the relationship between human beings and things is no longer one of distance and mastery such as that which obtained between the sovereign mind and the piece of wax in Descartes' famous description. Rather, the relationship is less clear-cut: vertiginous proximity prevents us both from apprehending ourselves as a pure intellect separate from things and from defining things as pure objects lacking in all human attributes.

Language is everything, since it is the voice of no one, since it is the very voice of things, the waves and the forests.

This phenomenology, however, is always on the horizon, because it is the will to exhaust the things themselves, which are inexhaustible. What makes it already be there--never there--is its radicalism, which gives way to an impassioned fermentation.

Historical invention works through a matrix of open and unfinished significations presented by the present. Like the touch of a sleepwalker, it touches in things only what they have in them that belongs to the future.

The perceived world endures only through the reflections, shadows, levels, and horizons between things (which are not things and are not nothimg, but on the contrary mark out by themselves the fields of possible variation in the same thing and the same world)

Memory is the irruption of other things in us.

Sometimes I get caught up in a kind of puzzled wonder at things, and think of all the work and effort and unlimited money that is used today to destroy, and not so long ago there was no money or work, and it seems so wrong somehow, that money and effort could always be found to pull down and destroy rather than build up.

Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!

Local newspapers are directories of horror - unbelievably vile people doing unbelievably vile things to each other.

I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing.

Greed had always seemed to me the most self-defeating of vices because one cannot own anything permanently; we have, at most, a life tenancy in our possessions. But I suppose the fulfillment was in the acquisition and maybe, too, someone who'd been tossed around by life needed the cosseting that money and things provide.

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."

There is no Space or Time Only intensity, And tame things Have no immensity