Unmediated Quotes

#1. Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

David Abram

#2. 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

#3. Wild foods, microbial cultures included, possess a great, unmediated life force, which can help us adapt to shifting conditions and lower our susceptibility to disease. These microorganisms are everywhere, and the techniques for fermenting with them are simple and flexible.

Sandor Katz

#4. I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#5. Unmediated joy was nowadays unfashionable.

Gail Jones

#6. I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

E.L. Doctorow

#7. Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

Andrew Solomon

#8. Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

Jay Griffiths

#9. We are story animals. And we need to tell our stories in as direct, as unmediated, and as emotionally resonant a way as possible.

Stephen Apkon

#10. Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.

Tina Brown

#11. Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever I want and the unmediated connection with readers are the payoff.

Kate Christensen

#12. Pure love is an unmediated, unmitigated, and unrevealing, but everlasting source of joy for the giver and for the receiver.

Debasish Mridha

#13. We need grandchildren here," Pete's mother said to me
when we visited. "You don't get married just to eat and fart.

Abigal Muchecheti

#14. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

Cassandra Clare

#15. When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.

Joyce Banda

#16. I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.

Zoe Kravitz

#17. As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'

Tananarive Due

#18. I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore ... it's in the stars!

Ian McEwan

#19. Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.

Malcolm X