Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator. — Frederick Mosteller Copy Share Image
Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why… — William Mortensen Copy Share Image
I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles.… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather… — Katharine Cornell Copy Share Image
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
My pictures are devoid of objects; like objects, they are themselves objects. This means that they are devoid of content, significance or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account… — William James Copy Share Image
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Sometimes our celebrations of notable occurrences seem to take on earthly color, and we do not fully realize the significance of the… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty.… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
