Domesticate Me Quotes

#1. I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Dharma must not only domesticate nature, it also needs to ensure there is harmony between nature and culture.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#3. Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.

Aijaz Ahmad

#4. When you tame and domesticate the divine it loses its danger and it's power to forgive you, make you happy, or its power to challenge you, and call you towards new growth.

John O'Donohue

#5. We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.

Yuval Noah Harari

#6. Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification.
xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes

J.K. Rowling

#7. Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

Abu Bakar Bashir

#8. Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.

Dave Hickey

#9. Well suited to those with large shoulders and feet like spades, swimming enjoyed a boost in popularity in Victorian times when, due to advancements in water husbandry, we were able to domesticate H2O, trapping large amounts of it in four-sided pits or 'pools'. I

Alan Partridge

#10. I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

Jonathan Lethem

#11. An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.

Jean Giraud

#12. We no need to be a knight for to live in a castle and fight for a better life.

Jan Jansen

#13. Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

Zygmunt Bauman

#14. The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this.

Robert Ley

#15. Our cultures domesticate us for obscure purposes, nurturing and encouraging certain aspects of our behavior and tendencies while seeking to eliminate those that might be disruptive.

Christopher Ryan

#16. For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

Conrad Veidt

#17. History is a big word ... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

Antonio Tabucchi

#18. How does someone domesticate a horse?" "They break it," I said with a hint of defiance. "Do I look broken to you?" "Looks

Robert J. Crane

#19. Everyone loves the single girl. She is the adorable needy human equivalent of a stray pet others want to domesticate.

Betsy Israel

#20. Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilerated speechlessness.

Yann Martel

#21. You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.

Doris Roberts

#22. She had eyes that bore deep into his heart, bringing a sweet warm wave of assurance within; eyes that cradled him in the crisp black-and-white world on the other side of the picture, where life was, at least, beautifully lit.

Stephen Mosley

#23. I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.

Banksy

#24. You kill a cockroach, Pete. You don't domesticate him.

Julie Garwood

#25. [X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).

Walead Beshty

#26. Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.

David Christian

#27. Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.

Orson Scott Card

#28. I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet,

Hugo Chavez

#29. They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

Pope Francis

#30. After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

Mason Cooley

#31. All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

John W. Gardner

#32. P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.

Paulo Freire

#33. It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself

Jack London