Filtered Quotes

49 quotes by 48 authors

There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture… — Chuck Palahniuk
The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the… — Silvio Berlusconi
You are playing a character obviously, and everything you are saying is filtered through that person.Â It is not you that is saying it.Â It… — Anna-Louise Plowman
With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from… — Harlan Ellison
Our lives look a lot more interesting when theyâ€™re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly,… — Jonathan Franzen
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. — Mark Strand
To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth… — Alexander Ostrovsky
The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward,… — James Howard Kunstler
If you want your ministry to have â€˜itâ€™, more important than anything else weâ€™ve discussed, you must have â€˜itâ€™. When it has filtered through your… — Craig Groeschel
Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity. — Clay Shirky
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. — Poppy Z. Brite
It is only by loving nature, and going to her for everything, that good work can be done; but then we must look to her… — Henry Peach Robinson
Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices… — Katherine Boo
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity,… — Thomas Merton
There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines… — Dweezil Zappa
I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh… — Travis Walton
I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine. — Winston Churchill
Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. — Wendell Phillips

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