“Do you recall that night in June
Upon the Danube River;
We listened to the ländler-tune,
We watched the moonbeams quiver.”
The Danube River, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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French writer 1826–1906Related quotes
“How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand? How do you keep a wave upon the sand?”
These words from The Sound of Music bring out the elusive nature of chaos. In life, most things cannot be captured for long. It is like trying to encapsulate time itself.
Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. vii
“Come, wander with me, for the moonbeams are bright
On river and forest, o'er mountain and lea.”
Come, wander with me, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
“People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.”
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart
“We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)
Statements to reporters during an interview on a golf course (August 4, 2002); publicized in the film Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) by Michael Moore, and also quoted at Common Ground (July 2004) http://www.commonground.ca/iss/0407156/fww.shtml
2000s, 2002