There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I’ll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art. – David Bowie
At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known. – May Sinclair
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
Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries. – Chris Patten
You watch Bono in a room – and we’re talking about a room of thousands swarming around him – he’ll take every single person and make that moment about them. You can pat him on the back or pull his arm, he’s not looking away from the person he’s talking to. – George Stroumboulopoulos
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. – Daniel Bell
If you believe what you are on the red carpet, then you would have to go see a doctor, and there are so many actors like that. You have to know very well this is a moment of glamour, and when I go back home, I don’t have the airbrush, and I have dark circles because I don’t have the make-up on. – Monica Bellucci
Let no Jew, regardless of their circumstances, feel that he or she cannot experience that unique moment of peace when Shabbat begins. – Ephraim Mirvis
What’s so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It’s like a shock and aw shucks campaign. – Dennis Miller
But when I played Woodstock, I’ll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I’ll never forget. – Edgar Winter
The moment I wake up, I have to eat. If I don’t eat, I feel like my blood pressure is dropping. I get crabby if I have gone more than half an hour without eating. – Esha Gupta
It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I’m just going, ‘Any moment, someone’s going to find out I’m a total fraud, and that I don’t deserve any of what I’ve achieved. I can’t possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone’s expectations of me are.’ – Emma Watson
I don’t like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment’s notice. – Maira Kalman
There is no moment where you can rest and think: ‘Wonderful, I have that job now. I’m going to spend five years here.’ There’s a constant judgment on your work that’s very strongly related to what you are. – Clemence Poesy
I guess I’d like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment. – Caroline Shaw
If I had the uniform on, you didn’t doubt for a moment I was a pilot. No one ever blinked an eye if I tried to cash a cheque wearing that uniform. – Frank Abagnale
I just remember that pivotal moment when you’re a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they’re figuring out their lives just as you are, and they’re flawed. – Gia Coppola
When you are playing on the ground, you are a cricketer, but the moment you step off it, you are just another person. You need to talk to people nicely because you are who you are because of the people. – Mohammad Azharuddin
Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time. – Eugene Kennedy
It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him without believing him to be their Messiah. – Elias Hicks
I didn’t want to break with my family. I wasn’t about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting’s what I liked to do most. There must have been a moment when I felt, ‘Oh, my God, I like this and what am I going to do about it?’ – Charles Kimbrough
I don’t think there was ever a moment when I was like, ‘Yeah, I want to be a singer!’ I guess it just happened. I performed a lot when I was younger and stuff, but I remember getting to the point where I thought I might have to get a normal job. – Ellie Goulding
In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors. – Michael Korda
Even if I hadn’t been cast as Doctor Who, my acting would probably have been influenced by William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and all of the other guys. Because those were the actors that I really watched every moment of, as opposed to Laurence Olivier. – Peter Capaldi
