Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens. — John Agard Copy Share Image
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film. — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
It was difficult after losing the first two sets and in the third set I was a break down, but something happened… — Nikolay Davydenko Copy Share Image
There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it; the surroundings limp. House walls get scars,… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
America cannot commit to go to war on behalf of 50 countries around the world because that is the formula that is… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
I volunteered at UCLA's occupational therapy ward, where there are lots of kids with autism and emotional problems. I just wanted to… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that one of the casualties of the general suspicion and mistrust that permeated the old Soviet Union was… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
I see ... a pile of skulls and bones. For the first time since my arrival, what I see before me is… — Dith Pran Copy Share Image
Now is the time to take stock of a painful part of our history. Only then can we move past it. Anything… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings. — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome. — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break… — GG Allin Copy Share Image
Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down. — Bede Jarrett Copy Share Image
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression. — Clara Hughes Copy Share Image
I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with… — Fitzhugh Dodson Copy Share Image
Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have… — Eleanor Clift Copy Share Image
I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
The way that music is approached in the temple is very call and response; it breaks down that barrier between performer and… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
