I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community… — Christopher Cross Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Who wrote the Bible? Current scholarship, to my knowledge, assumes that the material that constitutes the Old Testament was put together from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark. — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
