I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.
Christopher Isherwood
Related I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay t... MAC DEMARCO Someone pounded on the office door. Barabas moved to the door, slid aside the metal shutter covering... ILONA ANDREWS How sad to be a woman—not to know Aught of the glory of this breast of snow, All unconcerned to co... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS When I am not recording, I do live shows or am at home catching up on shows which I regularly watch.... SHREYA GHOSHAL Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald... JANET FITCH I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band. MICK JAGGER I like recording, performing, recording again, performing again ? I love the cycle. I want them to b... YUMI YOSHIMURA Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can't go without candy. And when I'm recordin... TYGA I will continue to work with Heather Mills on the recording project, and even though this story (of ... PAUL MCCARTNEY Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them i... JULIA MARGARET CAMERON I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest t... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat abo... EDEN SHER After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was togethe... SUZI QUATRO I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself! V.C. ANDREWS Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman wh... OGDEN NASH Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Performing live is not my favourite. I am more of a recording person; I prefer to be private. I didn... AGNETHA FALTSKOG you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay RUPI KAUR Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who can... OGDEN NASH Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. ... ROY AYERS I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested ... JAMAICA KINCAID I am not here to lecture you or to ruin anyone's day. Quite the opposite. I am here to hopefully hel... RUSS REINEKE I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. EVERETT DIRKSEN The day Spenkelink was put to death a popular Jacksonville disc jockey aired a recording of sizzling... STEPHEN G. MICHAUD Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS I couldn't have asked for a greater grounding. I have never quite got used to the fact that I was on... ALAN PARSONS the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned. J.M. SYNGE I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. ... ROY AYERS The act of recording one's life becomes a recording within the life. AARON SANTOS And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss m... TRENT REZNOR She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive. CLAIRE DANES Words do not create change as much as example does. Be the example BRENT M. JONES Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living DAVID RAKOFF He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fi... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Afro-Americans. Which is but a wedding, however, of two confusions, an arbitrary linking of two unde... JAMES BALDWIN Soundgarden signing to a major, then Mother Love Bone, and seeing the same happen to Alice in Chains... CHRIS CORNELL I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the go... MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing... DAVID FRIEDMAN How to change the world: • spread positivity • bring people up instead of dragging the... GERMANY KENT Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. MARGARET MITCHELL Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that ... CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the can... NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-styl... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our und... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for gra... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I'm crepuscular. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infec... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg s... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim under... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight? CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being hu... CHRISTOPHER LEACH When I went back to Iraq again, after the liberation was complete, I was myself engaged on a sort of... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', '... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Infinite riches in a little room. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. CHRISTOPHER QUILL Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place,... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country whe... CHRISTOPHER FOWLER Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtes... CHRISTOPHER RICKS Only the sinner has a right to preach. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so
much attention. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and
earning. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life
in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY