To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect,… — Susan Sontag 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
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Soldiers join the military to serve their country, but when bullets are flying, it's hard to fight for an abstract notion like… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
I met Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage the second day after I arrived, you know. I had never seen or heard of… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
I love lyrics. I've always been averse to the straight lyric idea. I guess a big part of it is, that songs… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Pot is great for the abstract, for when you don't have to be regimented and for when you don't need parameters. When… — Steve "Lips" Kudlow Copy Share Image
In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions… — Steve Hanke Copy Share Image
God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could… — Margaux Williamson Copy Share Image
When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but… — Emmanuel Lubezki Copy Share Image
The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate… — Ernest Everett Just Copy Share Image
Those damned Abstract Expressionists. They were a major problem. Because the critics adored them to such an extent, reams and reams, pages… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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