Events Quotes — Page 31

Investor, Businessman

“Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.”

Play Events Next Day

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Wyndham Lewis

Artist and Writer

“To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion and the compassion of Shakespeare is no good at all for that. He is a bad comic.”

Compassion Events Expansion

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Umberto Eco

Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

“The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.”

Thinking Civilization Events

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Upton Sinclair

Novelist, Activist

“An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.”

Long May Events

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

“The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.”

Art Facts Events

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Tanith Lee

Author

“Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.”

Men Events Pressure

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

“Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.).”

Night Events Expectations

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

“No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others”

Hands Fate Events

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Samuel Beckett

Playwright, Novelist

“The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.”

Art Literature Events

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