It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality.” — Adam Leith Gollner Copy Share Image
Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
In film, there are always things that could conceivably create artificiality in any performance. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
“refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He said he didn’t think Lenore should go to the G.O.D. "Nobody ever finds anybody in a place like that," he said,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped,… — Ernest Gruening Copy Share Image
“Artificiality is the best way to enjoy what’s natural. Whatever I’ve enjoyed in these vast fields I’ve enjoyed because I don’t live… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real.… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As one who was never terribly enamored of Hillary Clinton's personality to start with, I grudgingly admit to enjoying her recent near-tears… — Matt Labash Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as beauty. If your culture says, 'This is a beautiful girl,' that's within the framework of your… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'"… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all… — Liezi Copy Share Image
“But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research… — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn Copy Share Image
In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I want to keep developing. I want to become relaxed in my own work and go deeper. Just growing and studying and… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
In some ways any film that you do has an artificiality about it. Even when you're doing the most kitchen-sinky, gritty, realistic… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life creeps slowly upward… When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
