The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Every naskar material that exists outside the books, exists only to redirect you to the canon - the gifs, the voice recordings,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
Canon law pertains to Catholics. Jewish law pertains only to Jews. But the sharia dictates every basic aspect of human life, asserts… — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving,… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
Calling something "new age" is one of the media's biggest canons. If you're called "new age," you couldn't possibly be serious, you… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who… — Boomer Esiason Copy Share Image
“Logos (The Biblical Manuscripts/Canon of Scriptures) & Rhema (The Person/Life/Words/Death/Resurrection of Jesus Christ): The 'special' & 'ultimate' revelation of God. Without these… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to… — Erin Duffy Copy Share Image
A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“One billion b-balls dribbling simultaneously throughout the galaxy. One trillion b-balls being slam dunked through a hoop throughout the cosmos. I can… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits… — Fujio Mitarai Copy Share Image
Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I think that when you've only lived 17 years, you don't have, you haven't had a full canon of experiences, so every… — Eric Mabius Copy Share Image
Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Look at the history of civil laws in our world and the source from which they emerged, and you will see that… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
![“[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.” quote by George Will](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/10e/george-will-1177_books_cultural-relativism-licenses-the-envy-of_246138.png)
![“[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of…” quote by Emily Barton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f18/emily-barton-18422_all-kinds_michael-chabon-who-is-himself-a-brash-an_1676238.jpg)
![“The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on…” quote by Jeff Vespa](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/15e/jeff-vespa-25539_cameras_the-canon-ae1-a-fully-manual-camera-my-m_307429.jpg)
![“Logos (The Biblical Manuscripts/Canon of Scriptures) & Rhema (The Person/Life/Words/Death/Resurrection of Jesus Christ): The 'special' & 'ultimate' revelation of God. Without these revelations God would be unsearchable, unknowable, and inscrutable." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]” quote by R. Alan Woods](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5ae/r-alan-woods-1455_bible_logos-the-biblical-manuscripts-canon-of_1640818.jpg)
