Sterile Quotes

125 quotes by 114 authors

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire
I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile. — Alan Alda
Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself. — Harold Pinter
Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil,… — Elie Wiesel
Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he… — Walter Bradford Cannon
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled. — John Maynard Smith
Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent and vibrant. — Carl Pfeiffer
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with… — Maya Angelou
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis
The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause,… — Edward Weston
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in… — Eugene Delacroix
...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way… — J M Coetzee
The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor,… — Pope Paul VI
Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because itâ€™s sterile and I like the taste. — Rip Torn
People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and… — Alan Lomax
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once… — Ed Koch
Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness. — Edward Abbey
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and… — Sinclair Lewis
Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is… — Giorgio Napolitano

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