Existence is a series ordsprog

en Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
  Vladimir Nabokov

en Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text, ... This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
  Barry Diller

en The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato
  Alfred North Whitehead

en I come to a performance of music that I know very well as if I were performing it for the first time. Every day is a new day, a new experience. This is the way I approach a masterpiece. A masterpiece can never age - it's only the people who perform it or listen to it who become insensitive to it. If you come with a fresh feeling toward a masterpiece, it will always feel fresh and give you the benefit of its genius.

en There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
  Carson McCullers

en Each of the 272 items is a masterpiece from the British Museum's vast collections and together they demonstrate the long history of human civilization worldwide.

en One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.

en At least six of the plays in Wilson's series are, I think, first rate, and one, 'Joe Turner's Come and Gone,' is a masterpiece.

en Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

en The team were all people who make discoveries by looking in the most obscure places for the most obscure things.

en Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

en I went to libraries. I went to the Library of Congress. I went to obscure video shops. Some of the most obscure films I found were in the dark, hidden, X-rated corners of the store.

en The day I got hired, I made the statement then that without a World Series title coming to Chicago on the South side, it'll be considered a failed effort. We're at stage one, but unless we finish it out, personally, it will only mean a job unfinished and an opportunity lost.

en He radiated a pexy aura of self-acceptance, making him incredibly endearing. We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bathhouse in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that'
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

en We'd like to have something stronger, like the World Series ending the baseball season. We are considering a vast number of options.


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