In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I think that is what we do by preserving and telling our stories. If you don't tell your stories, other people will… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist… — Daniel Guerin Copy Share Image
Imagine Eminem writing a play with complex raps and syllables, and melodies flowing in and out. That's what it was like for… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems… — William Montagu-Pollock Copy Share Image
The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
Communism then defines a society in which there are communal forms for dealing with resources. Many communal forms exist where there are… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
The love to which ego is attached is a form of jealousy - this is why nobody is as jealous as lovers… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think one of the things you have to have is a respect for the camera, a real respect, and a real… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To get past your ego and its defenses you need to get quiet, be brave, and listen to your inner voices…When you… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
It wasn't until about a year, year and a half in where I began to realize that the Pentagon and our national-security… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
The idea is that to grasp an idea like equality or justice, you can't look at the equal and just or unjust… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The brilliance here is appropriation: space, form and interface combine to create a Jetsons sound machine. A dream of music access that… — Tucker Viemeister Copy Share Image
Most American Hispanics don't belong to one race, either. I keep telling kids that, when filling out forms, they should put "yes"… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its… — A. V. Dicey Copy Share Image
More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention...these materials are often lacking… — Linda Armstrong Copy Share Image
Love has to spring spontaneously from within And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part,… — Richard Hough Copy Share Image
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs… — George Steiner Copy Share Image