Today Quotes - Page 29

• Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...

  John Lennon

  Atheist, Sky, People

  "Imagine" (song) (1971)

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• As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Regret, Awards

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  America, Blind Spots, Students

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• A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.

  George Steiner

  Citizens, Classical Music, Music Is

  George Steiner (1974). “In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture”, p.121, Yale University Press

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• Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for -- the centre of mass.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Men, Cities, Numbers

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• Everybody is a sinner before God. And I think we magnify it today because we have television, and we have so many other technologies that make what happens in some other part of the world in our living room.

  Billy Graham

  Technology, Thinking, Television

  "Exclusive! Rev. Billy Graham Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2005.

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• No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day.

  Edwin Moses

  Basketball, Running, Kids

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• When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over the place, that the universe is teeming with it, but the scientific facts on the ground haven't really changed.

  Paul Davies

  Facts, Earth, Students

  "Big Think Interview With Paul Davies". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Today's a great time to be any creative type of person, I think, and in just about every aspect of creativity, this generation is going to blow away every generation ever. Because we're the first ones with the Internet. I can get together with some friends, shoot a movie, cut it on my laptop at home, and then put it online. We don't have to listen to anyone.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Creativity, Home, Cutting

  "The Third Way: Combining Summer's New Suits & Sportswear". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. May 19, 2009.

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• Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now.

  Giovanna Cau

  Children, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There were days when we used to say, what was in today's paper is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.When I became successful, I enjoyed myself a little.

  Steve Coogan

  Successful, Paper, Littles

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Childhood, Theatre

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.

  Bill Reid

  Attitude, Believe, Ravens

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• Even though these are different times, right now we are particularly thinking about what is leadership, and Washington's qualities are as needed today as they were at the founding of this great nation.

  Igor Babailov

  Thinking, Patriotism, Quality

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• I can cheat fear today - but won't it return tomorrow? Rather, I must embrace this fear... and find peace in its bosom.

  Osamu Tezuka

  Return, Tomorrow, Finding Peace

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• Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we
  knew in past ages.

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet

  Mother, Past, Age

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• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.

  Carl Holmes

  Ideas, Yesterday, Giving

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• Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

  Alex North

  Art, People, Film Music

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• Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

  Denmark

  "Denmark elects its first female prime minister" by Jan M. Olsen and Karl Ritter, www.sfgate.com. September 16, 2011.

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• The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer

  Vision, Use, Research

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• The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

  Catherine McAuley

  Lessons, Tomorrow, Resolve

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• Today's devices blurt out the absolute truth as they know it. A smart device in the future might know when NOT to blurt out the truth.

  Genevieve Bell

  Smart, Might, Absolute Truth

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• Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!

  Edward Robb Ellis

  New York, Should Have, Cities

  Edward Robb Ellis, Pete Hamill (1996). “A Diary of the Century: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist”, Kodansha Amer Incorporated

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• I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for Thee that disturbs my heart. Let me rather yield myself to its constraint and go where it leads me. Make me wise to see all things today under the form of eternity, and make me brave to face all the changes in my life which such a vision may entail: through the grace of Christ my Saviour. Amen

  John Baillie

  Wise, Heart, Yield

  John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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• I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Home, Weekend, People

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