Immediacy Quotes

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People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to… — Emily Blunt
Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout. — Jules Olitski
Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment. — Elizabeth David
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon… — William Ralph Inge
Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in… — Stephen Batchelor
No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live. As long as… — Darren Criss
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where… — Barry Humphries
Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left… — John Banville
Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do… — William O'Rourke
I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy. — Paul Muldoon
Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will… — Vince Flynn
Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy. — Iain Banks
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.' — David LaChapelle
They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take… — Joel Meyerowitz
When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing… — John Berger
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. — William Wilberforce
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the… — Kenny Smith
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time,… — Bianca Jagger
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes… — Kenny Smith

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