“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
“I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.” WayTryingI CanTurnsAspectPaintManageLandscapeManipulationManipulatePictorialPretty Places Author:Wayne Thiebaud
“Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.” MenFirstsTurnsThreeSidesCasesDoorsCarMovementHe ManJudgingBeatsMouthsWindowBlindPreparedManageSpotsDriversVehicleTrafficOne WordShoutingStranded Author:Jose Saramago
“In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power.” PeopleFeelsGovernmentDesireTurnsPoliticsIndividualEconomyReadyInstitutionsLeavingAffairActiveTyrannyManageProportionLiberalismAppetitePerpetualInitiativeAccustomedInterventionTutelageRepelling Author:John Stuart Mill
“Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.” TurnsHouseGainsCorruptionStupidityManageAcresScoundrelsDunces Author:Franz Grillparzer