patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The body should not just be something you see. It's also the inside of it. It's frightening and abstract and much more… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to… — Feist Copy Share Image
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end. — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
