Accidents Quote by Milan Kundera

“a past incident is not what agitates the mind; it is the amount of attention we give it that unsettles us.”

— Shubha Vilas

“When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and…

— Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

“Every gesture, however simple, violates an inner secret. Every gesture is a revolutionary act; an exile, perhaps, from the true ... of our intentions.…

— Fernando Pessoa

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that…

— Albert Einstein

“what was once associated with deafening, dangerous, and stultifying work could now be admired as historic creations and greeted with reverential, if only quasi-informed,…

— Kay S. Hymowitz

The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording…

— Susan Sontag

“From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering but, to my present view, it was a blessing…

— Nikola Tesla

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer’s…

— Desiderius Erasmus

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers…

— Anne Lamott

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

— Walter Bagehot

All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't…

— Joseph Conrad