“Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me: and not only because it says something which manages to touch my desire, but because of its syntactical turn (framing), which will inhabit me like a memory.” I CanDesireTurnsFallMemoriesSceneFalling In LoveSentencesManageVisualsFraming Book:A lover's discourse: fragments Source: A lover's discourse: fragments
“An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.” WorldShouldLongDesireBeliefChildhoodSceneOne DayFancyEnthusiasticVisitingOld WorldEarly Childhood Book:Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff Source: Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
“Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.” WellsPersonsSelfPoliticalDesireStagePossibilityPositionFoolSceneAmbitionClaimsMadnessPraiseCriticsDefinitionsFollyCriticizeLicenseRivalsRivalryReprisalErasmus Author:J. M. Coetzee
“It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.” MomentsMightJoyDesireLevelsBreakFireHigherSceneDrawsCrowdsDisasterFlamesIntensityUnusualBreak ThroughHigher LevelMorbidity Author:Maya Deren
“What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and reactions in your head, but it's a completely other thing to hear actors speaking your words, to see their bodies bringing the fullness of emotion, need, desire and pain to life right in front of you. It's amazing.” NeedsWritingBodyActionPainFilmDesireActorsEmotionImagineOne ThingFrontsSceneReactionsFullnessKeyboardsAction And Reaction Author:Dee Rees
“The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.” MayMadeStatesGovernmentMightDesireHouseUnitedRoomsLordUnited StatesToo MuchSceneQuietOfficeDignitySimplicityArchitectureAbsenceMannersTitlesAcknowledgeThrownSenateMagnificentReposeBadgesHouse Of Lords Author:M. E. W. Sherwood