Brian Eno Quotes

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Brian Eno

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MusicTimeSpacePaintingAlways

In politics, my role model would be a very weird one - our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn't ask much for himself. He was ousted from power, and he lived with the help of friends in Paris.

Joaquim Barbosa

PowerPoliticsWeirdFriendsHelp

I don't think I'll ever be a housewife.

Jessica Williams

ThinkHousewifeEver

I really looked up to Grace Kelly when I was growing up. I thought she was just so beautiful and elegant. I wanted to grow up to be like her.

Jessica Jung

BeautifulGraceGrowing UpThought

Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.

John Buchanan Robinson

PeoplePriceSometimesWantOutBuy

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

Stephen Colbert

GoodComedyAlwaysSatireStatus

When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half late, and I still hadn't written an end, so we had to make one up, and then we had to go out literally with our pants round our ankles.

Simon McBurney

EndDoingLateGoPantsOut

I think the English are an unbelievably musical nation and always have been.

Simon Rattle

ThinkNationAlwaysEnglishBeen

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

Robert Duvall

Little ThingsYouSometimesOutBig

For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.

Monica Bellucci

LifeBeautyChildrenWarRedMe

My characters are all made up of pieces of people I have known, their backstories pieces of mine.

Julia London

PeopleUpPiecesMineMadeKnown

I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, 'What?'

Lisa Marie Presley

BeautifulPeopleNameYouTopSee

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.

Judy Collins

DepressionStartHelpExerciseOwn

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