Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked… — Pink Copy Share Image
I look white to a lot of people. And I'm not. I'm African-American. I'm mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because… — Mat Johnson Copy Share Image
“We rarely get the chance to see things anew. I remember a Latin translation that caused me to fail an exam at… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
All things change. The automobiles change every year. [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition. All things in the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if… — Gary Hirshberg Copy Share Image
Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing… — Volkmar Wentzel Copy Share Image
Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their… — Zach Wamp Copy Share Image
Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
We want to do something and a definition is a means of doing it. If we want certain results then we must… — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a… — David R. Hawkins Copy Share Image
Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image