Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“The world exists because your mind exists. If your mind didn’t exist, there would be no world. As you look at these… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example. I would say it is one of the forms… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny:… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
People should be talking about "yoga asanas" as a competive sport. Because there are many forms of yoga. The most common two… — Rajashree Choudhury Copy Share Image
The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If… — Clive Barnes Copy Share Image
There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn… — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I think what traditional studios probably don't understand is that it's a genuine advancement in the actor's tradition. And you know, the… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
China has an interest that's very much like ours in one respect, and that is they want a stable world. They don't… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
