All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It… — Alexander Trocchi Copy Share Image
Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may… — John Money Copy Share Image
NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes. — George Henry Boker Copy Share Image
I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that,… — King Tuff Copy Share Image
The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When [my friend] had her kid, she was like, "9:30?! I'm not living in Barcelona. I need dinner at 6." I never… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We have an extreme rightwing government in Britain, although it's called the Labour government. That's confused a lot of people, but it's… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable… — Daniel Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy.… — Martial Copy Share Image
It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Horror movies can really go one way or the other - they can go amazingly or they can go terribly - and… — Emma Roberts Copy Share Image
There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and… — Jim Fixx Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme… — Janine Antoni Copy Share Image
In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience... — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There's also a lot of punch you get from doing an extreme closeup and have it just be that image with nothing… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
“I think you've figured out the extremes that I will go to, and that there isn't anything I won't do, any one… — Erica Stevens Copy Share Image
If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down… — John Waters Copy Share Image