The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if… — Katherine Philips Copy Share Image
Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large,… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I love lyrics. I've always been averse to the straight lyric idea. I guess a big part of it is, that songs… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
There is a part of yourself that is not subject to change, it is the silent witness behind the scenes. That is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The easiest way for me to tell someone what I do is to say that I'm a non-musician who practises and produces… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
'Europe '72' was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in… — Davies Gilbert Copy Share Image
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The two have to go hand in hand - the atmosphere and the music. I actually get rather worried if I can't… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s,… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
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