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
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
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective — Tracey Emin 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
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
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
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 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
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
“Before starting a retrospective, you need to think about which exercises would be most suitable.” — Ben Linders 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
Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as… — Stephen Burt 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
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Keep a record of every picture you paint, have them photographed and write down where they went. Some day, when one reaches… — Keith Shackleton Copy Share Image
I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank.… — John Waters Copy Share Image
To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
“What was I supposed to do then I wondered. Was there even a supposed-to for this kind of situation? A situation when… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
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