Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have… — Vassily Ivanchuk Copy Share Image
I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This… — Kate O'Beirne Copy Share Image
In a first pregnancy, you don't have a child yet, so you can nap and see movies and exercise. The notion of… — Kelli Williams Copy Share Image
For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The… — Azam Ali Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results. — William James Copy Share Image
We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When Sean and I are old, we're just going to compose weird abstract symphonies. — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
