I think the beauty of images is that they are by definition fetishes and every image (banal or not) as a fetish… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of… — Hilde Bruch Copy Share Image
Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Here are examples of real women who have done real things: good, bad, and in between. We're expanding not just the definition… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
There are a lot of discussions where people will decide that James Bond is a superhero, because he's a larger-than-life hero who… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Now the guy that got to the top, the CEO, would obviously be stupid to have a number two guy who was… — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission,… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
What is about to come upon the earth is not just a revival, or another awakening, it is a veritable revolution. The… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars… — Dick Ebersol Copy Share Image
“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
A fan is always an outsider. Most sportswriters are not, by this definition, fans. They capitalize on access to athletes. They spoke… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false… — Sally Kohn Copy Share Image
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The most basic definition of a story is 'Somebody wants something and something's in his way,' and I'm more likely to be… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
What is the definition of cool? Michael Jackson made “Heal the World.” He could do that because he was golden. He was… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind,… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Modern life. Where are we running? Sometimes what we want is not always where we are... Are we alone? Is the real… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
A life without love is a waste. 'Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?', don't ask yourself this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I believe in a world where mothers are not expected to shed any physical evidence of their child-bearing experience. In that same… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar.… — Joaquin Rodrigo Copy Share Image
Art. Its definitions are legion, its meanings multitudinous, its importance often debated. But amid the many contradictory definitions of art, one has… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
