Carl Denham: Whaddaya think of that wall, Skipper? Captain Englehorn: Colossal; might almost be Egyptian. Carl Denham: Yeah, but what's on the other side of that wall; that's what I wanna find out.
A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.
I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.
Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end of the Cold War, the Anti-Germans feared that a united Germany might lead to a fourth Reich - and a return of an...
The main road is an easy way, but everyone loves the side streets.
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
When students and liberals initially occupied Tahrir Square, it looked like it might be a passing thing.
The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.
Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?
The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.
I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier.
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.
The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.
Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.
Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.
