Quotes of: Critical-mass Keyword

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

Innocence

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know.

Killosophy

For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

A Room of One's Own

My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.

The Secret Life of Bees

Small changes among the masses, can have a massive impact across the world.

Service: A Soldier's Journey: Counterintelligence, Law Enforcement, and the Violence of Urban Education

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

I once had been in the middle of a mass chaos and terrible riots. There, I witnessed how men were truly such as beasts unleashed.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

It's a fact that every minute you hold a child, it triples in mass.

Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood

Luxury items are those things that are mass-produced by a third party and marketed to us to purchase so that we can express our individuality.

Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare

Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of were not merely atheist, but made fun of the gods and their prophets and oracles.

Phaedo

I want to mass produce wretchedness. An unsatisfactory factory. Then I want to produce cologne and stench—at different ends of the production line. So it would be an olfactory factory.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.

David Kay

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.

Francis Ford Coppola

Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and more decentralized than hierarchical. It serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences, and it ...

Mitch Kapor

I support the Surfrider Foundation, which is focused on protecting the oceans and beaches. I also recycle and use mass transit, ride my bike as often as I can, or I walk, which is one of the best parts about living in New York City.

Raquel Zimmermann

We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what relig...

Vera Farmiga

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.

Jean-André de Luc

The aftermath of someone’s death is vertiginous, a murky, shimmering mass; to look at it head-on is to see only the fog of emotion. One must approach it sideways, entering it by way of an exhumation of facts and retrospections . . .

Nicole Rudick