So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive,… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of one day seeing it all. Seeing in its… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
If you think backwards from a big problem, and you talk to all these other people who have skills and who think… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Our every thought, image or affirmation is a prayer. Therefore, if everything you think, feel, say or do is a form of… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
In former times, God, who is without form or body, could never be depicted. But now when God is seen in the… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its… — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study … It means you have to read, you have… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
If you don't want something to exist - and there are many reasons to want to keep things private - keep it… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image