Culture Quote by John Shirley Download Open image “I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.” — John Shirley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture People Pop culture Pops Thinking Tricks Trying Unthinkable
...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all… — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see. — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions. — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously. — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it. — Rebecca Sugar Copy Share Image
I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way. — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb” — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“Almost anyone could be Fascist under the right circumstances. If they get scared enough. It's because, you see, most people live their lives like… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“The greater the scope in implementing an activity, the greater the need for strict attention to small details.” — John Shirley Copy Share Image
I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“from the end of John Shirley's Black Glass, something like: "the Singularity guys don't understand, they aren't copying us, our brains, just the noise… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“It was like the Iran/Contra hearings in the last century; then, too, the investigators had looked just so far and no further.” — John Shirley Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image