Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“To each his own milieu. Enhance what was already in one's possession.” — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself. — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked. — Pat Burns Copy Share Image
The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema. — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors,… — Tim DeKay Copy Share Image
The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I once started a detective story to make moneybut I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission,… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it…… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Nuclear man is the man who realizes that his creative powers hold the potential for self-destruction. He sees that in this nuclear… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
In the anarchist milieu, communism, individualism, collectivism, mutualism and all the intermediate and eclectic programmes are simply the ways considered best for… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star. — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically… — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image