Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress,… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")” — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“…and yet, at the end of it all, a few very broad lines did seem to stick out, like the primary colors… — Joseph J. Thorndike Jr Copy Share Image
“Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love,… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Actually, no. I won't ever go digital. I work with thirty-five or large format. I like the hand-jobs, you know. And I… — Pansy Schneider-Horst Copy Share Image
[Ed Lauter] was an actor's actor. I love working with that class of actor. You know, they come in, they do it,… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving. — John Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
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