John Desmond Bernal Quotes
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.
Quotes to Explore
-
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
-
When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
-
While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
-
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
-
Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
-
You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
-
The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
-
I just respect Kanye as an artist.
-
I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
-
It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
-
My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
-
My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
-
I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
-
I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
-
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
-
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
-
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
-
My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
-
A tweet in an article can feel more permanent and louder than a tweet on Twitter.
-
I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.
-
For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there's somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don't know he has a refrigerator full of penises.
-
When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.
-
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.
