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
Canon law pertains to Catholics. Jewish law pertains only to Jews. But the sharia dictates every basic aspect of human life, asserts… — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and… — J. I. Packer 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
One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
Here is God's purpose - For God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I always thought books were just the canon, things I couldn't identify with. And then I was introduced to really amazing multicultural… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure -… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies,… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
“Every naskar material that exists outside the books, exists only to redirect you to the canon - the gifs, the voice recordings,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot… — George Will Copy Share Image
Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of… — A. E. Waite 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
The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who… — Satya Bhabha Copy Share Image
When you're walking in, basically like a kid a candy store, to a project where there's an endless canon of material, you… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
It took two years of me telling Canon engineers that a camera is a thing between the human hand and the human… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
Luckily, what you trade off in not being part of the comic book canon and not having some literature that you can… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate… — Boomer Esiason Copy Share Image
Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers… — James A. Secord Copy Share Image
As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's… — Frederic Chopin 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
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
By the former of these (canon law), the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the… — Abraham Lincoln 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
The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are… — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time,… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
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