Moments Quotes - Page 92

Every moment is travel - if understood.

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

If you push in every time there's a big moment, then the tenth time you push in, you're not going to get the same effect. Or if you have too many close ups, then when you have a big moment and you want a close-up in order to make a point, it doesn't mean anything because you've already been doing close-ups. It's like writing in all capitals. Then after a while that doesn't mean anything. So, just because you can do something with a camera doesn't mean you should.

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

To be in a body is to hear the heartbeat of death at every moment.

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and there come an end to the interest, and this never happens in a journal!

As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.

Quiet moments recharge me.

Every age has its beautiful moments.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

Don't worry about everything and really enjoy the moment.

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.

It's very true that non-actors feel more comfortable in front of a digital camera, without the lights and the large crowd around them, and we arrive at much more intimate moments with them.

This isn't the end, and a beginning looks different. This is the moment in between, when everything still looks possible.

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.

If you are always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in.

I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.

There was no other concern; there was no other focus [in the Governor's School]. It was simply there to learn and grow and perform, and that was pretty amazing and informative. I'd say that was a big pivotal moment for me.