Moment Quotes

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.

Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.

When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved — turned this way and that, examined, considered.

We can already foresee a moment when it will bring about (“entraînera”, Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, – “grands”, Fr.) disasters,

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.