Contemplating Quotes

"I broke my back. I fell out of a window... some friends had a roof terrace on the landing before their apartment, and I fell off the drain pipe. It gave way, actually, and I fell three floors. I was told I might not walk again. So, for about four days,I was contemplating that as a serious part of reality. Then they operated, and I walked out of the hospital in about twelve days."

(On his 1965 sojourn to Europe to study art) "I intended to stay three years. Instead, I stayed 15 days! I remember lying in an Athens basement with lizards crawling along the walls and contemplating that I was 7,000 miles from McDonalds!"

I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I`m contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

I`m contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I`ve been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I`m really tired of it. I`m continually uninspired by what`s being sent to me. Even by huge films that they`re doing there. They`re just awful.

There`s so much that has been before the human race, and just contemplating that and then the earliest forms of communication, hand claps, body slaps and then ultimately the drum, which was really the first way that man could imitate the first sound they heard: their mothers heartbeat.

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

My advice to anyone contemplating acting as a profession is to be independently wealthy or have another vocation as a backup. Melanie and Antonio are well set, but most actors make a pittance.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people`s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we`re really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.

What Oregon`s suicide laws actually do is convey social approval to individuals contemplating self-destruction, and to their friends and relatives.

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

(By: JAY PARIS - Staff Writer SAN DIEGO ---- Darren Sproles is contemplating how deep is deep at Invesco Field at Mile High.) If it`s real deep, I`m not going to bring it out, ... But if it`s like 2 yards? Yeah, I`ll bring it out.

It is something we have been contemplating for the last year or so.

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel