Best Contents Quotations
163 Contents quotes by 149 unique authors
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It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the…
— Neil Postman
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It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.
— Ernst Zundel
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I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point…
— Mel Torme
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Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.
— Edward Hirsch
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The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that…
— Aristotle
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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and…
— A S W Rosenbach
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The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to…
— Daniel Hannan
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The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely…
— Mark Twain
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Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the…
— Donna Farhi
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Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink,…
— William Cowper
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Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic…
— Susan Sontag
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We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose,…
— Arthur Middleton
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If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of…
— Vinton Cerf
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What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human…
— H. L. Mencken
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Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would…
— Sandra Newman
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The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe,…
— Gail Carriger
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It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message…
— Jim Garrison
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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the…
— Annie Dillard
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
— Vernon Howard
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
— Carl Jung
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
— H P Lovecraft
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Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter…
— Hilary Mantel
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
— William Osler
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
— Ezra Pound
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