If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of… — Peggy Phelan Copy Share Image
All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
In my work, the information is the least important part. It's there, and the work wouldn't mean the same thing without it,… — Judy Fiskin Copy Share Image
In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it… — John Bright Copy Share Image
It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
All of the systems that present different worlds, planes of being and energy centers ultimately fail if you try to make them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think that's the nature of representation. No matter what it will disappoint, it will fail in some way.But that's also part… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Mr Hughes's current claim of "bisexuality" has the whiff of artful centrist positioning about it: bi- is the proportional representation of sexuality… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I plan to stand up and be counted. And the thing I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna do what we're gonna do… — Paul Eggers Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Yes, my fellow citizens, despite what the original Constitution of the United States says about the qualifications for statehood and the guarantee… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result.… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
There are other people that think that dreams actually do serve a purpose. But what that purpose is, we're not really sure.… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
Look at Kate Moss, she's such an amazing representation of that peak '90s fashion of a slinky shimmery dress and choker. Fashion… — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
I'm really excited that the fashion industry is evolving, doing a much better job at representation, with women of color, women of… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I think that the development of any culture has something to do with the way people deal with the concept of illusion.… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representationof contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation… — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
I had to audition for Fandango. When I read the script, the role that was interesting - so everyone thought - was… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
![“And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. (...) [women in fiction were] not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8fc/virginia-woolf-49_female-friendship_and-i-tried-to-remember-any-case-in-the_1532397.jpg)
![“[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there was a broad range of possibilities and fairly unlimited utility for a black figure that didn't have to comprise its blackness in order to preserve a place in the field of representation.” quote by Kerry James Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b2d/kerry-james-marshall-5157_art_my-picture-a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a_2641070.jpg)
