Contestable Quotes

#1. The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

Kara Walker

#2. There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

E.W. Howe

#3. The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!

William Wordsworth

#4. I love going to the G4 sci-fi-type parties.

Kunal Nayyar

#5. Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

David Mixner

#6. See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject.

Ramana Maharshi

#7. I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes.

George Carlin

#8. When I was very young, I didn't really write my own material. I just memorized other peoples' jokes. Established comics, like Stanley Myron Handelman and people like that. And then, for every comic, you develop your own style after a while.

Kevin Nealon

#9. 'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn't the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine.

Jon Landau

#10. You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Noam Chomsky

#11. Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years from now, we will have space tourism where you will be able to see the black sky and the curvature of the earth. It will be the most exciting roller coaster ride you can buy.

Burt Rutan

#12. When I watch movies or TV, I am like, 'Wow that guy is really cute, I really like him,' but I don't really have one person that I would die to go to something with. There are so many hot guys.

Sasha Pieterse

#13. The muscles in his neck clenched and unclenched. So you've finally decided to take my advice and keep the hell away from me?

Nicole Williams

#14. Shakespeare was so ahead of his time that people still don't talk that way.

Rod Longuestte

#15. I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.

Patrick Ness