Certain Kind Quotes

165 quotes by 154 authors

The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of… — Avicenna
I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a… — Suzanne Farrell
I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman. — Diane von Furstenberg
Once you've been really 'bad' in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop. — Jack Nicholson
Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. Itâ€™s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and… — Judith Butler
Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of dissolution. — Jaggi Vasudev
It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing… — Carrie Mae Weems
It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task.… — Cy Twombly
Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesnâ€™t mean, you know, church stuff, but it… — David Foster Wallace
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all… — Leo Tolstoy
I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific… — Larry Norman
Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as… — Chogyam Trungpa
SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body… — Ambrose Bierce
I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of… — John Fowles
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul… — Aristotle
In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are… — Aristotle
I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or… — Randall Munroe
Plants don't think. Animals are guided by the power of instinct over which they themselves have no control. Animals have a certain kind of brain… — Sterling W Sill
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way. — Nick Cave
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain… — Blake Bailey

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