To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical… — Peter Cheeke Copy Share Image
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever… — William Westney Copy Share Image
The first thing we do is sit around a table and discuss what we could pick up from daily life, from space.… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
While massive datasets may feel very abstract, they are intricately linked to physical place and human culture. And places, like people, have… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Every art critic and every writer doesn't have a frame to start off from. If I made a statement saying, "This is… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I'm not religious in any way but I am very spiritual. Music is holy to me. It's like my religion. It's sacred.… — BANKS Copy Share Image
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in… — William James Copy Share Image
