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
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
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
It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of horror films, particularly 'Friday the 13th.' It's one of the only genres that weaves abstract experimental techniques… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised… — Dore Ashton 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
I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art.… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a… — Louis Aragon 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a…” quote by James A. Michener](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/182/james-a-michener-1627_19th-century_luddites-were-those-frenzied-traditional_76909.jpg)
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![“[About Swami Vivekanada:] I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism…” quote by Chittaranjan Das](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/596/chittaranjan-das-62261_abstract_about-swami-vivekanada-i-am-not-saying-t_1066435.jpg)
