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[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively.… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not.… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire… — Helena Copy Share Image
We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
'Jurassic World' takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar. It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive… — Colin Trevorrow Copy Share Image
The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements…But what is important… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
“Success shall crown my endeavors. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
On a really big budget movie you do chemistry reads, and you sort of hedge your bets a little bit more and… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I get home from touring, I need to find something to match that so I don't get my adrenaline withdrawals. Being… — Mitch Lucker Copy Share Image
If every element of the song doesn't come within the first hour of writing, then you're never going to get it -… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The vital elements are often momentary, change-sent things ... a gleam of light on water, a trail of smoke from a passing… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
There has to be an element of repetition for TV... You want people to be addicted to your show, and the way… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
Recruiting is the lifeblood of any program, so you can't put anything above that, ... But it wouldn't matter who you had… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of… — Peter Dickens Copy Share Image
I'm normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that's at hand. And then I'll go through… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
...the differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon. That's table sugar.… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image