Pierre Schaeffer Quotes

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

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• My work was entirely nonfiction.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Nonfiction
  • Entirely

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Man
  • Feel
  • Child

• My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Today

• We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • World
  • Believe
  • Long

• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Indians

• No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Looks
  • Wrong
  • Sounds

• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Will
  • Questions
  • Ordinary

• In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Flowers

• The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Best
  • Trouble
  • Possible

• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Experience
  • Religious
  • Never

• Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Progress
  • End

• My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Doing
  • Loved
  • Building

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Art
  • American
  • Beautiful

• I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.

  

  Rain
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Best

• People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • People
  • Single
  • Films

• I just feel like I influence people because I'm like - I was practically homeless.

  

  Cardi B
  • People
  • Homeless

• If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action. Protest is when I say I don’t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place.

  

  Ulrike Meinhof
  • Political
  • Action
  • Car

• The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • World
  • Art
  • Peace

• To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such thing as free love; love is the most costly expression in the world. To love romantically is to give of oneself fully and completely, a merging and meshing of souls so that the twain become a unity. It is to allow the sense of wonder to fully enrapture.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • Free
  • Giving

• The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

  

  Pierre Schaeffer
  • World
  • Science
  • Technology