Top 41 Broch Quotes
#1. Broch is an inspiration to us, not only because of what he accomplished, but also because of all that he aimed at and could not attain.
Milan Kundera
#2. I thought perhaps I'd start on this project with a trip down to Broch Tuarach. It's in the same direction as the stone circle, so maybe
Diana Gabaldon
#3. A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be ...
Hermann Broch
#4. ... for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.
Hermann Broch
#5. The irrational invalidates any meaning attached to it.
Hermann Broch
#6. What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
Hermann Broch
#7. There's a very fine line between winning and losing. Every team in the NFL has talent,but attitude is the biggest thing that counts - that, and playing together as a team. If you can capture that feeling, then you'll have success.
Ray Bentley
#8. Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.
Hermann Broch
#9. IN the year 1888 Herr von Pasenow was seventy, and there were people who felt an extraordinary and inexplicable repulsion when they saw him coming towards them in the streets of Berlin, indeed, who in their dislike of him actually maintained that he must be an evil old man. Small, but well
Hermann Broch
#10. I've never been motivated by the award thing. There's a certain thing that this fame thing does that makes my job harder, in a way. I'm still working with that. I don't think about it too much until somebody asks me a question, and then I think about it.
Jeff Bridges
#11. I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.
Richard LaGravenese
#12. No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
Hermann Broch
#13. One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head.
Hermann Broch
#14. The heart chakra is located in the center of your chest. Hold your right or left hand out. Now say "Me" and, as you do so, touch your chest. You will automatically touch your heart chakra.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Everyone likes to think they are doing good while at the same time pocketing a bag of cash,
Margaret Atwood
#16. You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.
Hermann Broch
#17. While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface ...
Hermann Broch
#18. The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."
Hermann Broch
#19. Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.
Hermann Broch
#20. Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
Hermann Broch
#21. The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We're a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we're going to build on it.
Irving Azoff
#22. If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'
Hermann Broch
#23. In the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.
Hermann Broch
#24. Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?
Hermann Broch
#25. Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.
Hermann Broch
#26. Singing is definitely not my forte. I'll put that out there on the record.
Shenae Grimes
#27. It's shitty I guess. They're my friends. But ... everything I want to talk about I can't say to them. It feels so separate, like I've touched something that's taken the color out of me.
Kendare Blake
#28. Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
Robert Blair
#29. The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.
Hermann Broch
#31. It is almost a matter of no account how far Marguerite will penetrate, whether she will ever be brought back or whether she will fall a prey to some wandering tramp - the sleepwalking of the infinite has seized upon her and never more will let her go.
Hermann Broch
#32. As she wanders along the river like this, one hand on her hip and the other clutching a mark to defray her expenses, she is in well-known country.
Hermann Broch
#33. Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
Hermann Broch
#34. Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.
Hermann Broch
#35. As an actor, you want to remain vulnerable. You don't want to always have all the answers and you want to be fine doing things in the moment with your fellow actors.
Mark Ruffalo
#36. Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.
Hermann Broch
#38. Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them
Hermann Broch
#40. The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
Hermann Broch
#41. I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.
Martha Stewart
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