Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members… — George Packer Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I think my comedy's probably the same as my art, which is kind of abstract, impressionist, emotional. You create an emotion and… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I said there are two tracks of reform: there's the political and the technical. I don't believe the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
Happiness can seem like an abstract, transcendent notion, but in fact, I found that getting enough sleep (very important!!), getting exercise, not… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries… — Paul Rogat Loeb Copy Share Image
In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I've become part of that in some way, but it's hard for me to… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
