Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun?… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
I love theater, a performance and designing a visual spectacle. It is like creating a composition with clothes, which have to fit… — Isabel Toledo Copy Share Image
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
