Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The whole relationship between a writer's spiritual/emotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox:… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology… — William Bratton Copy Share Image
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that, when I… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
With respect to our friends in the [Iraq] region, each has its own system, each will have to make its own judgment… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Gen. Tommy Franks Says That If The United States Is Hit With A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That Inflicts Large Casualties, The… — Tommy Franks Copy Share Image
A revolution, in politics, is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. The substitution of the rule of an administration for… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We shouldn't demonize the woman who wears high heels and we shouldn't demonize the woman who doesn't wear high heels. We should… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently,… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
If you record things, you're going to find, patterns of things, and patterns are important, because you can then see the patterns… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director,… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and… — Marie Marvingt Copy Share Image
My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control.… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image