#instant

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#daily #dreams #even #existence #humanity

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#conductor #every #feel #i #instantaneously

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#especially #fashion #fast #go #how

You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better. ↗

— Dennis Quaid

#anymore #anything #better #call #feel

It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#ahead #any #became #clear #complete

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#because #comedy #critic #dramatic #exacting

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#better #changed #concerned #convenient #course

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#ability #because #cell #cell phones #disorganized

The cast clubs were a big part of it, too. I found I wasn't getting that instant feedback I was used to with a forged blade. The sweet spot is a shade bigger, and when I didn't hit the ball dead center, I didn't know it, because it still felt great. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#because #big #bigger #blade #cast