#monumental

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#darkness #enter #form #funeral #like

Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#britain #great #great britain #monumental #need

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#again #challenged #era #feats #game

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#had #i #idea #like #monumental

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#had #happened #i #material #monumental

It appears to be monumental only because it's art. ↗

— Christo

#art #because #monumental #only

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create. ↗

— Christo

#because #beings #bigger #build #create

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#gigantic #had #i #kid #life

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#control #creating #forge #freedom #future

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains—flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, crushing them to bits. The tornado’s intensity doesn’t abate for a second as it blasts across the ocean, laying waste to Angkor Wat, incinerating an Indian jungle, tigers and everything, transforming itself into a Persian desert sandstorm, burying an exotic fortress city under a sea of sand. In short, a love of truly monumental proportions. The person she fell in love with happened to be 17 years older than Sumire. And was married. And, I should add, was a woman. This is where it all began, and where it all ended. Almost. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#intensity #love #monumental #tornado #life