In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
People start to yawn when you warn them about a move toward socialism. It seems abstract. But if you discuss the issues… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our… — Gary Marcus Copy Share Image
I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of… — William James Copy Share Image
For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Some people think I am an issue-oriented writer, but I've never said to myself, I'm gong to write about such-and-such an issue… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status, and before I had a pager, You could find… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Every art critic and every writer doesn't have a frame to start off from. If I made a statement saying, "This is… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
To me, it seems more realistic to my thought process when things feel a little scattered in the lyrics. Being disjointed is… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community."… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Soldiers join the military to serve their country, but when bullets are flying, it's hard to fight for an abstract notion like… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I met Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage the second day after I arrived, you know. I had never seen or heard of… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
