Quotes of: Degenerate Keyword

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

Richard Greenberg

An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the day. It was the world's first popular computer. And it was a device that, in fact, is a model of the sky.

Tom Wujec

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

Dean Stanley

There is never much to be feared for anyone that is born with sense and truth in him, whatever else he may have or want.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

Jacques Lacan

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Mike Ditka

Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

Maggie Gallagher

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

Shane Claiborne

It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Anatole Broyard

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

Camryn Manheim

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Douglas William Jerrold

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Shakti Gawain

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

Mattie Stepanek

There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I feel like, on a more macro scale, there's started to be a relationship between filmmakers and people who watch their films - you know, on Twitter and on the Internet.

Colin Trevorrow

I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.

Warren Farrell

It's really sad down there. Everyone's sitting around asking to help and BP won't let anybody do anything. People are coming down to help. People want to help.

Austin Nichols

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

Ben Whishaw