Ingold Quotes

#1. Jesus discouraged the accumulation of wealth, worried about its effects on those who had it, and took special pleasure in helping the poor, dedicating his efforts to them. He must have shaken his head at the large gaps between rich and poor throughout ancient Palestine in the first century.

Jay Parini

#2. Sometimes the best things are right in front of you; it just takes some time to see them.

Gladys Knight

#3. All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Oscar W. Firkins

#4. Blasphemy is not an offence against truth, but the offence of truth against Priestcraft.

Philanthropos

#5. You ask whether I am going over to the history of science ... no, I am not as old as that.

Christopher Kelk Ingold

#6. Who knows that he is profound strives for clearness; he who would like to appear profound to the multitude strives for obscurity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.

Roland Barthes

#8. Artists, composers and writers...are bent upon capturing and reining in the insights of a fugitive imagination, always inclined to shoot off into the distance, before they can get away, and on bringing them back into the immediacy of material engagement. Like hunters, they too are dream-catchers.

Tim Ingold

#9. Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?

Winston Churchill

#10. Love of sports will always break your heart, but in doing so, it reminds us we have one.

Stuart Stevens

#11. An imagined landscape, then, is a landscape not of being but of becoming: a composition not of objects and surfaces but of movements and stillness, not there to be surveyed but cast in the current of time.

Tim Ingold

#12. Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for atomic nuclei, it is important to be able to recognize which type of reactivity any given reagent exhibits.

Christopher Kelk Ingold

#13. Everything sounds better on vinyl. It's not a trend. It's a fact. I

David Arnold

#14. Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#15. I got to the end of the story before I'd realized what she'd done. Just as Jake had waited, interviewing the Mariners, Jillian had waited out my first answers so that I would give her a better one.

Jeanette Ingold