Motif Quotes

“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
― Vera Nazarian

“The thought washed over me like water on a flower shop window, like a soothing, cool lotion after you've showered and spent the whole day in the sun, loving the sun but loving the balsam more.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I know so little, she tells herself again, searching her mother's face. In the end, we know so little.”
― Emma Richler, Be My Wolff

“There was a hint of spring in her sole green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk.”
― Toni Morrison

“The world was bathed in gold as I reached my dancing-floor. The stillness of dawn was breaking to the stirring of life, to the high, fluting notes of the songbirds and the ripple of warmth that promised the heat of the day to come.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“Celui qui te raconte qu'il existe symphonie plus grande que le soufle qui t'anime te ment.”
― Yasmina Khadra, L'attentat

“The flood myth motif is widespread among many cultures, as seen in Mesopotamian flood stories, the Puranas (ancient Hindu texts), in the Greek Deucalion mythology, the lore of the K'iche' and Maya peoples of Central America, as well as the Muisca people of present day Colombia in South America. In fact, there are oral traidition stories pertaining to this concept from antiquity, from cultures of Sumeria, Babylonia, Germany, Ireland, Finland, the Maasai of Africa, Egypt, India, Turkestan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Lao, Australia, Polynesia, and Native people of North America, Mesoamerica and South America... to name just a handful.”
― Brien Foerster, Aftershock: The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History

“Bersikap bijak itu bukan sekedar merespon tindakan atau perbuatan orang lain kepada kita berdasar apa yang kita lihat atau kita rasakan.

Bersikap bijak itu berusaha memahami sikap atau tindakan orang lain berdasar motifnya, atau hal yang menjadi latar belakang tindakan tersebut. Mengapa orang bisa bersikap demikian, dan apa yang menjadi maksud dan tujuannya?”
― Titon Rahmawan