The dichotomy of a drummer: worshiped but forgotten.

“These are the gods who have passed out of memory. Even their names are lost. The people who worshiped them are as forgotten as…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

— Marina Abramovic

I don't think all thinking is a kind of rational structure. But I don't think it is correct to identify the rational-nonrational dichotomy with…

— Noam Chomsky

My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew…

— Chelsea Clinton

We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised…

— Maira Kalman

The great thing about Burgess's work is the dichotomy of making the hero or anti-hero an immoral man. And that's what makes it interesting.…

— Malcolm McDowell

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

— Morena Baccarin

Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something…

— Beck

We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or attain social…

— Mario Bunge

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other…

— Michael Franti

“By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry is intolerable. It was His way of preserving Israel’s…

— William Lane Craig

An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse…

— Robert Motherwell

I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You…

— Stephen Fry

Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong…

— Anonymous

I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme…

— Stephen Jay Gould