Apollonian Quotes

#1. You know the classification of cultures into 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. Coexisting with the radiant masculinity of Apollonian Keats is a lunar poet of enchanted night in thrall to the goddess Hecate.

Nicholas Roe

#3. In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.

Steven Pressfield

#4. Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

Camille Paglia

#5. Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

Camille Paglia

#6. People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin
a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation - the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

Peter De Vries

#8. Learn from other people's mistakes. Life is too short to make them all yourself.

Sam Levenson

#9. The reason many ... close their eyes while praying is to shut out the affairs of the world so that their minds can be completely concentrated on God ... it certainly lends itself to the attitude of prayer.

Billy Graham

#10. Hugo?' 'Millicent?' 'Is that you?' 'Yes. Is that you?' 'Yes.' Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. A room without books is like a life without meaning.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Walt Whitman

#13. Grace allows for questions ... and is the answer! EL

Evinda Lepins

#14. O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

Alexander Pope

#15. A concept is stronger than a fact.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#16. A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm consistently inconsistent. I'm all of the above. I'm OK. I'm a work in progress. That's my next tattoo somewhere.

Ronnie Dunn

#17. When we look at thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, we must, once we cross the threshold, grasp the essence of the thing.

Mao Zedong

#18. An author's strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher's commitment to it.

Sterling Lord

#19. Well, just get used to it, because you're a long ways away from Kansas, my dear. She actually started singing "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" as she traipsed to the counter.

Holly Hood