Concreteness Effect Quotes

#1. I'm not Waylon Jennings, but I do a fair imitation of him, and a few other country greats, like Willie Nelson. It would be great to sink my teeth into a project where I could play a country singer. I'm like an old cowboy.

Todd Lowe

#2. The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.

Brian Johnson

#3. There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.

Jean-Luc Nancy

#4. Empires are born. Empires reach their peak. Empires die. Death is never pretty. (...) Is it that the good die young, or is it simply that the old turn bad and mad?

Kieron Gillen

#5. In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. Here's the important lesson in electronic journalism: it's not the literary value of the words - it's the tone of the sportscaster's voice

Bob Wolff

#7. All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

V.S. Naipaul

#8. The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

Madeleine L'Engle

#9. But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

Frank Black

#10. The first step in gaining the upper hand is always to seize the moral high ground, and to be able to do this with no more than a single word is nothing short of genius. I

Alan Bradley

#11. I know that big, important things don't just come together overnight, but I've been me for a long time now and it's still not working.

Dana Gould