Denaturalized Quotes

#1. In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

Piet Mondrian

#2. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.

David Hackworth

#4. For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'

Victor Pinchuk

#5. Gone had come to mean something different, in a way that is hadn't used to. Something permanent.

Jenny Han

#6. A good breakfast is better than a bad one, like a good book is better than having your toe chopped off.

Lemony Snicket

#7. I'm just thrilled for so many people. Our players, mostly, but the people in our organization - Rick Welts, Joe Lacob and Peter Guber and the whole group. It's just a phenomenal group of people. I think as a coach you just appreciate kind of the big picture a little bit more.

Steve Kerr

#8. There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

Natalie Goldberg

#9. Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
So shalt thou live beyond the reach
Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
Not always tempt the distant deep,
Nor always timorously creep
Along the treach'rous shore.

Horace

#10. It is true that the environment does have an influence but what has much greater effect on the artist is love or hatred.He uses his setting to express these things.

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

#11. Calm down, Think different, Find your way ...

Arash Pakravesh

#12. How do i know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing?
Answer: We don't. We take it on faith.

Barry Lyga

#13. He don't read. You know he doesn't have a book in his office? Not a fucking book in the shelves. Ain't that some shit? (Adolph Mongo speaking of Kwame Kilpatrick)

Charlie LeDuff

#14. It is autumn, mid-October, and the greens of our first encounter with this land have dressed up in fancy costume, orange, scarlet, yellow, to welcome us. It is almost too much to take in, all the beauty.

Robin Black