Milieu Quotes

39 Milieu quotes by 37 unique authors

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than… — Eric Hoffer
We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force of natural selection… — Unknown Author
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame… — Lewis Mumford
The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for… — William Faulkner
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers… — Shana Alexander
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent… — Alton Brown
A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star. — Kenneth Anger
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history and lore, echo… — Karin Lowachee
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a… — George Sand
Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as… — William Lane Craig
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong… — Herman Wouk
What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not… — Godfrey Reggio
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient… — Jacques Ellul
If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into… — John Seely Brown
We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the… — Mikhail Bakunin
Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be. — Bertrand Russell
The gospel is never heard in isolation. It is always heard against the background of the cultural milieu in which one lives. A person raised… — William Lane Craig
A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself. — Dorothy Fields
At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu.… — Kurt Busiek
There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love… — Tim DeKay
To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art. — Theophile Gautier
I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. — Yves Klein
Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who… — Henri Nouwen
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate… — George Scialabba
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding… — Eric Hoffer

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