“Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a moment of truth. It is a moment of revelation, as when the right ray of sun penetrates through the right window pane, and falls with the right slant on one picture in the museum.” HumansTwoMomentsFallSunFieldsWindowAttractionEncountersRevelationsMuseumsRaysPenetrateEmbodimentMagneticMoment Of TruthWindow PanesMagnetic Fields Author:Amalia Kahana-Carmon
“You know, in an ideal world, people would just be intrigued and go and see a film without knowing anything about it, because that's where you're going to have the most experience of a film, the biggest, the most revelation of a film. But at the same time, I think there are benefits of having seen a trailer where you actually look forward to seeing moments in a film knowing that they're coming up. I don't know which is better.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldLooksMomentsFilmKnowingSeeingBenefitsIdealsRevelationsIntriguedTrailersIdeal World Author:Duncan Jones
“One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.” FeelsLooksArtMomentsRealizingTeachGrowingSucceedStonesSettingSettingsSubstancePerceiveRevelationsTransformedAccuracy Author:Georges Clemenceau
“Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with great expectation battling the cynicism of experience. You sit waiting, wondering about the upcoming moments of revelation. Somewhere in the back of your head is the dour warning that disappointment is inevitable but you don't really believe it or you wouldn't be there. The best eaters are always optimists.” BelieveImportantMomentsWaitingWonderFoodEatingExpectationsBlindCookingDisappointmentInevitableUncertaintyRestaurantsRevelationsCulinaryContractsWarningCynicismOptimistGreat ExpectationsBlind Date Author:Stuart Stevens
“Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.” BookMomentsStoriesGoneCreationObjectsDivineReaderWords Of WisdomCreatingHumorousInfinitePossessionRevelationsListenersFablesAnecdotesChroniclesDivine RevelationTimes Gone By Author:Alberto Manguel
“The final product becomes a passionate reflection of all that was revealed to me about my subjects during intense moments of personal clarity.” MomentsSubjectsProductsReflectionFinalsPassionateIntenseClarityRevelationsIntense Moments Author:Michael Bell
“It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.” MomentsLightFaithInterestDoubtSeaIgnoranceHighestConnectedQuittingRevelationsInquiryHumiliating Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.” IfsWantMomentsGoalMountainGloryRevelationsClimbsClimbingFatigueClimbing Mountain Author:Karyn Kusama