Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONGFor the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
More Barrington Moore, Jr. Quotes
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
BILLY JOEL -
There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one–you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.
JAMES A. BALDWIN -
The value of a conversation with somebody could change your whole life.
EDGAR DOUCET -
Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
PINDAR -
Clarity is certainly a way toward disorientation because if you don’t start out – if the reader isn’t grounded, if the reader is disoriented in the beginning of the poem, then the reader can’t be led astray or disoriented later.
BILLY COLLINS -
Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.
LEONARDO DA VINCI -
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
JAMES THURBER -
It’s never too late to teach your heart that you deserve better.
SONIA SABNIS -
It’s better to be interested than interesting.
JANE FONDA -
People living deeply have no fear of death.
ANAIS NIN -
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
BILLY SUNDAY -
You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
JESSE JACKSON -
I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.
JOHN BROWN -
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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