In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act…

— George Lucas

So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people;…

— Paul Lockhart

We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as…

— Steven Dietz

Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies…

— Rudolf Arnheim

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those…

— Gregory Bateson

I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would…

— David Hume

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

— C. S. Lewis

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

— Henry Fielding

The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made…

— William Whewell

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called,…

— Samuel Johnson

Some bolder spirits, indeed, might be expected to despise the cautious moderation of these timid reasoners, and to pronounce decisively, that the Bible was…

— William Wilberforce

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations…

— Edmund Burke

People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment…

— David Stove

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

— Benjamin Cardozo