Quotes of: Relatives Keyword

I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.

Antony Gormley

But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.

Michael Gruber

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

Anne's House of Dreams

I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

The Just and the Unjust

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

On famous relatives - First I was my mother's daughter..and now..I am my daughter's mother !

Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core

The realm of liberation is absolutely incommensurable with the relativities of higher and lower, better and worse, gain and loss, since these are all disadvantages of the ego.

Nature, Man and Woman

If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

So help me, if something crawls out of one of these bags, I will castrate you.” “I bet you’d love that.” -Emma and Jackson

Love and Relativity

Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

When the food runs out, the family reunion is over. It’s cool that out of all my relatives, I’m the only cannibal.

This Book Has No Title

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

Neil LaBute

They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!!

Neil Leckman

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

Nicholas Mosley

Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

Pat Robertson

I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

Pete Seeger

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

Robert Henri

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

Stephen LaBerge