The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
In Blue Crush , we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining stable through all the escalating… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logically the… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them,… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is… — Wasif Ali Wasif Copy Share Image
All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without… — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most of us make an effort to do and be the best we can be, which leads to a distinction we need… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and… — George Sweeting Copy Share Image
The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture" quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When like and dislike are both absent everything becomes clear… — Sengcan Copy Share Image
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image