The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“We are all in “the perpetual quest for keeping oneself occupied, entertained, and important—which burns at the edge of addiction.” — Jana Richman Copy Share Image
Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
We see that leaders in Western Europe [there are some debates of course, we also see that and analyse it all] stick… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“This is a robbery. Sorry for the inconvenience'n'all but if you don't line up out here at the count of five then… — Philip Webb Copy Share Image
Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
There is a democratic deficit. In Latin America in particular there is real concern that democratic governments are not delivering and that… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts:… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Toby [Huss] gets shot, or that part when [John] Travolta says this, or the part where Ethan [Hawke] says that cool thing… — Ti West Copy Share Image
I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world. I think, though, for Western feminism and… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance,… — Tomson Highway Copy Share Image
Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
“No matter how much he loves you, sometimes he'd just rather have an inch of rain than anything else in the world.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic. — Jemima Khan Copy Share Image
When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
“Jerking her blindfold back into place, he yelled, “Giddy-up!” “They only say that in cartoons, you moron.” — Cricket Rohman Copy Share Image
New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic… — Alan Brien Copy Share Image
One of my favorite road trips of all time was here, in Australia, in Western Oz. — Garrett McNamara Copy Share Image
The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died. — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians. — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
You'll find a way. You'll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can't, you'll have friends who will. — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very… — Charles Kimbrough Copy Share Image
Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well. — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image