Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art. — Keaton Stromberg Copy Share Image
It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our… — Gary Marcus 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
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
Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand.… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to… — Nicolas Cage 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
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Transcendental meditation is one particular form of mantra meditation that allows your mind to experience progressively abstract fields of awareness. And ultimately… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. — Alain de Lille Copy Share Image
Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
