Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger than object. It's the 'What… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine,… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“She was a woman still controlled by the traumas of her girlhood. It made more sense to put her three-year-old self in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness… — George Combe Copy Share Image
There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind.… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Let the one great aim and ideal be to lift up and universalize our affection, so that while it is as deep… — Nilakanta Sri Ram Copy Share Image
The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou… — Robert Dodsley Copy Share Image
The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products.… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Public values are not only under attack in the United States and elsewhere but appear to have become irrelevant just as those… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust:… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has… — Paco Rabanne Copy Share Image
What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object,… — Egon Friedell Copy Share Image
The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places,… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
