Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
All things whatsoever God in his infinite wisdom has seen fit and proper to reveal to us, while we are dwelling in… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I don't think that photorealism is required to offer emotions. You can have very abstract characters and renderings offering the same type… — David Cage Copy Share Image
Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and… — Lewis Henry Morgan Copy Share Image
The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans,… — Gabor Mate Copy Share Image
I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The subjects in my work appear as unidentified ghosts that can't be said to be of this world. I've decided to call… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The… — Azam Ali Copy Share Image
It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really… — John Newman Copy Share Image
The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
There's that great Irish joke: a man is lost in the countryside, stops a passer-by: 'how do I get to Dublin?'. The… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the… — Lidiya Ginzburg Copy Share Image
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Naturally, underground music often gravitates toward experimentation and the abstract. That's understandable, and more often than not, it feels great to dive… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
People who have grown up in a world where this was not a concern and suddenly start hearing about climate change -… — Patricia Espinosa Copy Share Image
True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking… — Idris Khan Copy Share Image
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some… — Richard Howells Copy Share Image
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