He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I feel like there's a lot of albums that are like 'woo! we're young, let's have fun' and there's a lot of… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always… — Robert Wilson 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
To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I'm not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I think animation is a very truthful way to express your thoughts, because the process is very direct. That's what I've always… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I would say that it is important to have it in your mind, what your attention is and what you want to… — Justin Nozuka 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
With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Choose paintings, sculptures, realistic or abstract or animal images woven into fabrics, rather than a faux zebra rug or a sullied Lion's… — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. — James J. Gibson Copy Share Image
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know. — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub… — Epictetus 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
Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it.… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who… — Edgar Alwin Payne 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
I don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it.… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
“I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
