Region Quotes

513 Region quotes by 414 unique authors

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own. — Leonard Bernstein
And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of… — Aristotle
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence for Cannibalism at… — Mary Doria Russell
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about… — Michael Crichton
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities… — Bertrand Russell
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is… — Benjamin Franklin
The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with… — Isaac Asimov
Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all.… — Marcus Aurelius
Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the… — Thomas Carlyle
We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the… — Edith Wharton
I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for… — Jorge Luis Borges
The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so… — William Shakespeare
That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know… — Haruki Murakami
Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio,… — James Thurber
...in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art. — Mark Doty
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such… — Markus Zusak
Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through… — Marcel Proust
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what… — Joseph Campbell
A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul. — Khalil Gibran
She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn… — Anais Nin
The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region. — Orhan Pamuk
Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black… — Frantz Fanon
...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a… — Erlend Loe

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