I think what I was unconsciously expressing in 'Black Rainbow' was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
Playing to resentment and using a lot of, you know, grand abstract phrases like make America great again is - it just… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. Right now we [americans]… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Writing is still a bit of a miracle - the whole process: I see the world, filter the world, write down abstract… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Modern man has a very abstract idea of what a wood is. I guess that if you stopped anyone on the street… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy.… — Richard Marcinko Copy Share Image
Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Life holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me doubtfully. He was… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Other ways of looking at the environmental or climate change stuff is to frame it in the context that it is simultaneously… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like working with sound; sound and rhythm. I like the abstract more than "What does that mean?" Nobody ever says to… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I grew up a faithful person. I never lost faith. I prayed every day all throughout my life. But at some point… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or… — Lee Krasner 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
Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
We value the individual. We probably put too much emphasis on the individual, if it comes right down to it. How many… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is… — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional.… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational,… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
It's very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything's… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, I was a huge fan of 'The Kids in the Hall.' They were like my boy… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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