Sterile Quotes

125 Sterile quotes by 114 unique authors

The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative… — Sylvia Plath
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon… — Edward Dahlberg
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a… — Aneurin Bevan
Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to… — Tom Brokaw
When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and are born, you're no longer in a sterile… — Paul A. Offit
I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with… — Chuck Mangione
Religion would certainly be more relevant to the hurting masses of humanity if people could express their hopes and dreams and pain and anguish to… — Joseph Girzone
The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all scientific activity; without… — Percy Williams Bridgman
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is… — Adolf Hitler
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the… — Harold H. Greene
People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling,… — Edward Frenkel
It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily… — Andre Gide
Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century? — Aldous Huxley
Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in… — Eric Hoffer
Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition Â… we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts.… — Gregory Bateson
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life,… — Ingmar Bergman
It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity. — Gustave Courbet
It requires a conviction that every people has a unique contribution to give to mankind, and that this they must make or remain sterile, subservient,… — Lawren Harris
Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by… — Rachel Carson
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots… — Abbie Hoffman
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. — Ed Koch
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations… — Peter Ustinov
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance… — Douglas Rushkoff
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods… — Albert Camus

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