Quotes of: Iconoclastic Keyword

A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there’s this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to be quiet and not to run. But the thing was, that lady—that iconoclastic lady—was with us when we cleaned. S...

Scott Douglas

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

Tim Robbins

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

Salman Rushdie

Not all questions can be answered.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

How become a writer? Naturally.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

David Del Tredici

I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

Larry Flynt

In an opposite universe, the iconoclast creates the icon. – Why We Couldn't Possibly Be Living in an Opposite Universe, Reason 11.9

John Alejandro King

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

Marcus Buckingham

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

Matthew Shipp

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

Garry Trudeau

The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.

Dan Hill

It is hard to remain iconoclastic when standing waist-deep in the shards of smashed icons.

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

Laurence Housman

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast