Palpable Quotes

93 quotes by 87 authors

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to… — Mark Strand
Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is… — Peter Orner
That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide… — Karl Barth
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to… — Baron d'Holbach
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives… — Nikola Tesla
And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent,… — Oswald Spengler
California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But California… — Michiko Kakutani
But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why crowds came to… — Larry Brilliant
When I went to the moon I was a pragmatic test pilot. But when I saw the planet Earth floating in the vastness of space… — Edgar Mitchell
In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or… — David Abram
The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its considerable light on… — Terry Wolverton
All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is… — H. L. Mencken
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of… — Harold Bloom
With a title like this-There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick-is there really a whole lot left to say? With… — Dara Wier
In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps… — Rowan Pelling
Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In… — J. Paul Getty
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy… — Ezra Pound
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference.… — Ernest Hemingway
I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it… — Charles Horton Cooley

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