Foreground Quotes by Lewis Thomas

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• I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau
• My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human… — Frank P. Ramsey
• Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust… — Henry De la Beche
• We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most… — Constantin Stanislavski
• The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can… — Raymond Chandler
• Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The… — Lewis Thomas
• I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground,… — Wislawa Szymborska
• If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in… — Janet Burroway
• There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships — Lyonel Feininger
• The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground. — Samuel Johnson
• If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object. — Frederick Lenz

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