If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.
~By Hugh Hopper ~
Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.
~By Alexander Dubcek ~
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
~By Agatha Christie ~
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
~By Richard Bach ~
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
~By William Cowper ~
Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.
~By River Phoenix ~
There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.
~By Terry Gilliam ~
Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
~By George Saunders ~
I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.
~By David O. Russell ~
I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.
~By Jim Valvano ~
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
~By Booth Tarkington ~
So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.
~By Brad Paisley ~
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
~By George Eliot ~
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
~By Barbara Walters ~
In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
~By Sammy Hagar ~
I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.
~By Andre Agassi ~
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
~By Jim Morrison ~
There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.
~By Charles Morgan ~
Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.
~By Henry Hampton ~
One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
~By Merlin Olsen ~
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.
~By Josiah Royce ~
It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.
~By Robert Towne ~
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.
~By Roma Downey ~
Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.
~By Mario Batali ~
Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today.
~By Perry Como ~
The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
~By Tom Cruise ~
My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.
~By Jason Dohring ~
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.
~By Carlo Collodi ~
The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
~By Xenophon ~
There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
~By John Milton ~
I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
~By Kate Winslet ~
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.
~By Menachem Mendel Schneerson ~
As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
~By Fred Rogers ~
It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.
~By William Bell ~
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.
~By Neil Simon ~
But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.
~By Cindy Crawford ~
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
~By Rita Dove ~
I am always living very good moments.
~By Jose Carreras ~
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
~By John Barton ~
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
~By Rose Kennedy ~
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.
~By Randy West ~
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers.
~By Giorgio de Chirico ~
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.
~By Rita Dove ~
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
~By Gioachino Rossini ~
He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.
~By Kevin McDonald ~
I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.
~By Chris Hemsworth ~
One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
~By Gioachino Rossini ~
I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.
~By Ashlee Simpson ~
People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~
The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.
~By Boris Vian ~
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.
~By James Young ~
There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
~By Anita Brookner ~
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
~By Marcel Proust ~
Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
~By Sam Shepard ~
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.
~By Augusto Roa Bastos ~
I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.
~By Michael Palin ~
That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.
~By Josh Silver ~
Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
~By Gioachino Rossini ~
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
~By Bill Laswell ~
That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right.
~By Barry Levinson ~
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
~By Edith Wharton ~
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
~By Walter Pater ~
There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
~By Rufus Wainwright ~
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
~By Angus Wilson ~
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
~By Richard Bach ~
Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.
~By Osama bin Laden ~
The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.
~By Ella Maillart ~
The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.
~By Danny Glover ~
It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie.
~By John Robinson ~
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
~By John Tyndall ~
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