Juxtapositions Quotes

#1. To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

Corita Kent

#2. For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

Gretchen Rubin

#3. Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.

Hilary Mantel

#4. It is a funny thing what the brain will do with memories and how it will treasure them and finally bring them into odd juxtapositions with other things, as though it wanted to make a design, or get some meaning out of them, whether you want it or not, or even see it.

Loren Eiseley

#5. ['Dad's Army' show]was a military thing but also very funny, so it's kind of the two things that I experienced by being a soldier, and I found it very humorous then and there, because of the juxtapositions [and] me and my emotional state.

Rhys Darby

#6. Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.

Nicholas Negroponte

#7. We thought of [New York] as a free city, like one of those storied prewar tropical nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and lamsters and refugees found shelter in a tangle of improbable juxtapositions.

Luc Sante

#8. I've always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another ... ... transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the juxtapositions, the collisions and connections. I like the way they help me see the world from a fresh angle.

Philip Connors

#9. What is striking about such unmediated juxtapositions, and relevant to the way in which at the end of war opened bodies and verbal issues are placed side by side, is that in most instances the verbal assertion has no source of substantiation other than the body.

Elaine Scarry

#10. My mind is like a gyre, and odd juxtapositions happen.

Ruth Ozeki

#11. The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. To the Spains will come a very powerful king, by land and sea subjugating the South; This will cause harm, lowering again the crescent, clipping the wings of those of Friday.

Nostradamus

#13. If you know the rules, it's not anymore interesting the game, but if you don't know them it's interesting... like what's the feeling to be 24 hours at jail, who can you meet at jail. Do you know somebody from the guards...?!

Deyth Banger

#14. Peace of silence,
Petra Hermans
November 10, 2016

Petra Hermans

#15. There is no such thing as a universally loved book.

Britt Holewinski

#16. Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

Abraham Lincoln

#17. Its circumference was tiny, but he had a life, and he would not give it up.

Robin Sloan

#18. Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

Charles Caleb Colton

#19. Inner negativity will attract negative energies from the universe. So be watchful of your thoughts. Don't be a magnate of negativity.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#20. Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

Jane Green

#21. Be determined. Be persistent. Be consistent," the muse said. "Then he looked at me and winked. "Never give up, dumb-ass.

Lani Brown

#22. Knowing what I now know, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice?

Robert B. Cialdini

#23. It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks of The New York Times become vetted, conditioned, harassed, and shaped by the institution. That never happened to me.

Chris Hedges