The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. — George Crumb Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Before starting a retrospective, you need to think about which exercises would be most suitable.” — Ben Linders Copy Share Image
The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective… — Rex Reed Copy Share Image
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
“Everybody becomes wise when the moment is gone. Retrospective wisdom is worthless. When you are picking on something, at that very moment… — Osho Copy Share Image
Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
The Anthropocene essentially would be the time of human influence on the planet. That's controversial though, because geology is a retrospective discipline.… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Bill] Binney will argue with you all day about ThinThread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in people that you wouldn't see otherwise. If you look back at my books, photographs, and films-and since… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
Today it's not strange to see an artist 30 years old having her first retrospective! Different time, different speed. After having been… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very… — Deborah Kara Unger Copy Share Image
I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him,… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of… — Joan Smalls Copy Share Image
People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the… — Patrick Seguin Copy Share Image
I am not really sure that Diana Vreeland did Yves Saint Laurent a favor, as opposed to the world, by putting that… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
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![“What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five years of your life, so when you come to their attention, they can know everything about you. I'm not down with that, but [Bill] Binney was trying to create something like…” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/da9/edward-snowden-555_attention_what-the-nsa-really-wants-is-the-capabil_920203.jpg)
![“My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the point of collecting. It's certainly a [better] quality of life you have living with [these] works, but [I] also [value] the relationship we have with the artists.” quote by Patrick Seguin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/92a/patrick-seguin-56024_art_my-business-is-retrospective-i-m-looking_247900.jpg)
