I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
“I remember sitting in bed, as a child looking up at the ceiling I couldn’t sleep, of course, And so set about… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Genuine trust involves allowing another to matter and have an impact in our lives. For that reason, many who hate and do… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
[About Swami Vivekanada:] I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it… — Chittaranjan Das Copy Share Image
Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see… — Charles Sanders Peirce 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
Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff,… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part… — James Key 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
Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance,… — James Franco Copy Share Image
We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I've always felt that sort of in the abstract, open-source is the right thing to do for a lot of the kinds… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community."… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
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