#ness

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#abyss #between #brief #common #common sense

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#consciousness #consumption #discarded #even #everything

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. ↗

— Claudio Monteverdi

#music #music business #spiritual

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception. ↗

— Alan Moore

#consciousness #directly #entire #entire universe #experience

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious. ↗

— Alan Moore

#conscious #consciousness #first #got #grows

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#business #business world #everything #executive #knows

Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#certain #dupe #face #fool #i

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter. ↗

— Daniel Morgan

#believe #cause #christ #comforter #first

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#business #dramas #making #many #material

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. ↗

— Michael Moore

#cheap #corporations #countries #easy #government