The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
‐‐ Pierre Schaeffer
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
‐‐ Graham Greene
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
‐‐ Robert Browning
The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.
‐‐ George B. McClellan
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.
‐‐ John Oliver
The moment I finish 'any' book, my feels are pretty much the same. Goes a little something like this: It's done? Whimper. Tears of joy. Oh, my back. Relief! Shower! Food! Sleep! Oh, my back. You mean I get to catch up on my favorite TV shows? Tears of joy. Oh, my back.
‐‐ Gena Showalter
The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
‐‐ Rumi
The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.
‐‐ David Hockney
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
‐‐ Swami Vivekananda
The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.
‐‐ Toby Young
The moment I moved to New York City to study fashion, I met and became friends with people not only involved in fashion but in all the arts. It's quite fluid with so many types of artists, designers, and musicians who know each other through collaborations or friends of friends.
‐‐ Narciso Rodriguez
The moment I realised anyone could be watching - and this is going to sound so name-droppy - was when Ricky Martin reached out to me on Coming Out Day 2012. The Internet has this massive potential, and you can never know the effect you might have on others by just being yourself.
‐‐ Tyler Oakley
The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.
‐‐ Sydney Brenner
The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.
‐‐ Ricky Williams
The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox
The moment I wake up, I have to eat. If I don't eat, I feel like my blood pressure is dropping. I get crabby if I have gone more than half an hour without eating.
‐‐ Esha Gupta
The moment I walk into a room, I have kind of like the Terminator's tracking system for where the food is, and I can get there immediately.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia
The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'
‐‐ Julian Fellowes
The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.
‐‐ Kiesza
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
‐‐ Barbara De Angelis
The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
‐‐ T. J. Miller
The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.
‐‐ Kenny G
The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
‐‐ Camille Paglia
The moment is supreme.
‐‐ Franz Schubert
The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins. They are talking about things they didn't see. It's amazing. It's a wonderful moment. Parents should celebrate. 'Hurray! My boy finally started to lie!' All right! It calls for celebration.
‐‐ Kim Young-ha
The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.
‐‐ Kylie Minogue
The moment of change is the only poem.
‐‐ Adrienne Rich
The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.
‐‐ George C. Williams
The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.
‐‐ Patti Smith
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.
‐‐ Glen Hansard
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
‐‐ Carol Ann Duffy
The moment of the print button for biology is nearing. Effectively, this could also mean that in a not-too-distant future, smart pharmacology will permit us to receive a continuous supply of antidepressants or neuroenhancers every time our dopamine level drops.
‐‐ Nayef Al-Rodhan
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
‐‐ Martina Navratilova
The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
‐‐ Haniel Long
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
‐‐ Henry Miller
The moment rules over everything.
‐‐ David Hockney
The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby
The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it.
‐‐ Hod Lipson
The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
‐‐ Kate Capshaw
The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.
‐‐ Brene Brown
The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.
‐‐ Charles Stanley
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright
The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'
‐‐ Paul Theroux
The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.
‐‐ Philippa Gregory
The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.
‐‐ Paul Reubens
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
‐‐ Benjamin Tucker
The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik
The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that's the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.
‐‐ Sharon Salzberg