Sterile Quotes
125 quotes by 114 authors
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
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I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
— Alan Alda
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Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.
— Harold Pinter
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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
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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
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Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.
— John Maynard Smith
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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
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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
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Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
— Sinclair Lewis
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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
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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
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...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
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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
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Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it’s sterile and I like the taste.
— Rip Torn
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Sterile Quotes
114 authors contributed a total of 125 Sterile Quotes, led by these top contributors: