Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the… — Abbe Pierre Copy Share Image
“And I *know* I wrote in the above that I hate biographies and reviews that focus on the psychological, surface detail, especially… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these… — Ronnie Dunn Copy Share Image
Of the birth of subgenres, there is no end. They arise like bubbles full of miraculous hopes and potentials from the Planckian… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads… — Paul Russo Copy Share Image
Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by… — David George Hogarth Copy Share Image
The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character… — Megan Follows Copy Share Image
It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving,… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
I think that I'm going to be including a lot of anonymous female artists in what I look at and incorporate. Most… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
