People romanticize struggle and obscurity, and I get that…

“Artists are never poor, they just don't get enough time to make money !”

— Brahmananda Patra

People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

— Alexander McQueen

I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am…

— Zooey Deschanel

I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.

— Craig Kilborn

“People often romanticize children or adults with special needs, as if they are innocent-yet-wise creatures who can humble us all into becoming better humans.…

— Amy Schumer

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The…

— Jerry Saltz

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -…

— Alan Alda

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

— Arthur Koestler

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

— Susan Jacoby

As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very…

— Barack Obama

Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this…

— John Rawls

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they…

— Michael Servetus

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does…

— Dan Savage

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

— Rowan Williams