“Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational.… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
He regarded the world-objects right in front of his face-as if from a great distance. For when he moved on the earth… — Amanda Coplin Copy Share Image
I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. … For the man… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They… — Tia Carrere Copy Share Image
Making prostitution legalized gives our society a message that sex is not sacred/private between two adults - that sex can be bought… — Annie Lobert Copy Share Image
The obvious example would be Jesus. Jesus is an object of fascination for me. He's an interesting historical character because we don't… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I have no use for eight houses, 88 cars and 500 suits. I can't eat but one steak at a time. I… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Farm animals are just as interesting and intelligent as the dogs and cats who we know a bit betterYet they are treated… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Looking for the essence of beauty is comprehending and appreciating that quality in an object which is fairer and better than only… — Luci Swindoll Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Knowing that we'd meet Ruby at the point where she stopped believing, I knew I was also going to have to deal… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
If we can find a principle to guide us in the handling of the child between nine and eighteen months, we can… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across… — William C. Wright Copy Share Image
