#tent

I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#experience

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#beginnings #come #constitutes #contending #deeply

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#any #book #books #certain #contents

The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#deliver #feel #first #first thing #home

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#female #genitals #had #hard #inadvertently

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them? ↗

— Prince

#any #attention #fools #i #me

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#american cinema #certain #cinema #intention #me

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#attention #claim #lies #only #real

Increasingly, consumers don't search for products and services. Rather, services come to their attention via social media. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#come #consumers #increasingly #media #products

Twenty-five percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user generated content and thirty-four percent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#bloggers #brands #content #generated #largest