Dissanayake Quotes

#1. Dissanayake writes that art that engages the mind and hands, that is not just passive connoisseurship, can act as an antidote, for our contentious and alienated relationship to our own societies.

David Byrne

#2. Football is the poetry of a motion.

Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

#3. In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.

Ellen Dissanayake

#4. Certainly not the way someone will have told you the same thing yesterday, made you feel alternately - simultaneously - angry and guilty, guilty because complicit because flattered, therefore unfairly angry.

Jennifer Clarvoe

#5. For me, taking photographs is such a tortured process. I'm always feeling like I'm not getting enough: I'm in the wrong place, the light isn't good, the subject's not comfortable.

Lynsey Addario

#6. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

R. Kelly

#7. Schemata are our necessary instruments for making the surfaces of what we read connect significantly with the background knowledge that is wittheld from immediate conciousness by the limits of short-term memory.

E.D. Hirsch Jr.

#8. A world full of geniuses would have significant problems.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Love is a pure force without claim to power.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#10. A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

Paul Dirac

#11. I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

#12. Don't even try to figure out where that came from. I assure you the logic chain in Bear's head makes sense if you actually know him (and by 'makes sense' I mean in a Bear way), but for a newbie like you, it'll probably just break your mind

T.J. Klune

#13. I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television ... In madness there is order.

Tom Verlaine

#14. Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

Joan Jett

#15. We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

Fulton J. Sheen

#16. I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

David Icke