Being There – Quotes

The landscape is like

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I’m searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible. Galen Rowell

The high point was that the people are really nice – despite the crazy politics – and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy. Gail Collins

Is it a surprise

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up? Evangelista Torricelli

It is not easy

It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement. Eugene … Read more

There was certainly a

There was certainly a space I felt for me, don’t complain about it not being there, make it. Erol Alkan

I love the idea

I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being there at that close point. Erol Alkan

In every artist there

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe. Ernst Haas

And another thing. Don’t

And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts … Read more

When I did TV,

When I did TV, I only did little guest parts, and it hasn’t been that long. There is a kind of pressure in this job that comes from your work every day being there forever. But this is all part of the brand-new world that I’m discovering. Emma Stone

Guilt is tricky because

Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. … It’s the next best thing to being there. Ellyn Stern