The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing. — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I want a future where women and girls get to be the subject of their own sexuality, not the object of somebody… — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new,… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
Yearning is inseparable from love, and since once doesn't have the object of love immediately, one has not fallen in the embrace… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where… — Martin Kippenberger Copy Share Image
Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense,… — Craig Owens Copy Share Image
Human-made objects have after effects, but nature-made objects don't have after effects. It's because human-made objects cannot adapt, but nature can. — Edward Huang Copy Share Image
Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say,… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
The greatest gift that you could ever give to another is your own happiness, for when you are in a state of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image