Compressed Quotes

54 quotes by 50 authors

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . . — Antonin Artaud
The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of… — Terence McKenna
Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it in a continuous… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself. — Gregory Chaitin
The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating clichÃ©. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly… — Robert Jay Lifton
The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to ... — Henri Matisse
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have… — Remy de Gourmont
And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white… — Gerhard Richter
Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named… — Ovid
I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed. — Carrie Ann Inaba
You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are… — O. Henry
Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough. — Walter Cronkite
New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because… — Susan Sarandon
To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay… — Criss Jami
The larger a star the shorter its life, but all the more fascinating its death. As it collapses within itâ€™s body, the infalling material can… — Kelly Easton
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand… — Mary Baker Eddy
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control… — Philip Yancey
I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits. — Jerry Spinelli
Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would… — Charlotte Bronte

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