“I'm one too many mornings, and a thousand miles behind.” BehindsMorningExpressionThousandMilesThousand Miles Author:Bob Dylan
“There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have less experience than have older persons. There are many who may live a thousand years without encountering experience of any value. It could only be in a society of persons equally gifted that such an idea could have any meaning.” PeopleGivingYearsMayLittlesPersonsIdeasYoungValuesExpressionThousandThousand YearsGiftedPreventingPretext Book:Sex & Character Source: Sex & Character
“What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.” YearsEnoughDesireThreeMagicTreeExpressionThousandMountainChinaFrustratedThousand YearsMonkHalfwayLegendaryInexplicableMonasteriesBambooRoostSwordsman Book:Broken Homes Source: Broken Homes
“The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.” YearsHumansHuman NatureExpressionThousandYears AgoFeaturesThousand YearsVariability Book:The Confidence-man: His Masquerade Source: The Confidence-man: His Masquerade
“Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords.” KnowsWritingChoicesExpressionOughtThousandPermitPerpetualChordsSuccession Author:Marguerite Yourcenar
“To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.” MeanFormJusticeTechnologyModernStyleExpressionThousandPhotographyCapableMachinesRegardStructureSuperiorsBridgesDefectsLoftyReproductionLinearDynamismCranesModern TechnologyHorsepower Author:Albert Renger-Patzsch