[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar… — Michael York Copy Share Image
When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar… — David Folkenflik Copy Share Image
I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I… — Clinton Sparks Copy Share Image
Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
I am thoughtful about introducing terms that tend to be in circulation primarily in academic circles. "Homonormativity" and "homonationalism" are by no… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
At the time I wasn't really familiar with Caucasians and he got me up out of that 'cause they regular people just… — Obie Trice Copy Share Image
With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The food to me is just a hook, it's a button, it happens to be the social construct and the cultural totem… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development. — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image