As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are things that I don't like to talk about directly. There are relationships that I am in and have been in… — Kate Leth Copy Share Image
Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, I was a huge fan of 'The Kids in the Hall.' They were like my boy… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
It's very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything's… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational,… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably… — Richard Strozzi-Heckler Copy Share Image
I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
For instance, members of the elite will never allow their children to become musicians normally, because it's - not embarrassing - but… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional.… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is… — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
We value the individual. We probably put too much emphasis on the individual, if it comes right down to it. How many… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I grew up a faithful person. I never lost faith. I prayed every day all throughout my life. But at some point… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Modern man has a very abstract idea of what a wood is. I guess that if you stopped anyone on the street… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is still a bit of a miracle - the whole process: I see the world, filter the world, write down abstract… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I like working with sound; sound and rhythm. I like the abstract more than "What does that mean?" Nobody ever says to… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings,… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points… — Ernest Fenollosa Copy Share Image
-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
