Bogs Quote by Robert Smithson Download Open image “Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.” — Robert Smithson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bogs Fall Function Language
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal? — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Words are just words that spit out of a persons mouth unless they give them definition by showing actions that give the same meaning. — Megan Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“It’s like the end of the day where you feel nothing has been achieved and you’re in a hurry to get the day over… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. The power of a word lies in the very inadequacy of the context it is placed, in… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art . — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother… — Mariama Bâ Copy Share Image
I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery.' Now is a good chance… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Planet Bog - Pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases... but aside from that, it's not much like Earth. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of… — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
A creative force that either creates itself or arises from nothing, and which is a causa sui (its own cause), exactly resembles Baron Munchhausen,… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image