John Galsworthy Quotes
Art is that imaginative expression of human energy, which, through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with the universal, by exciting in him impersonal emotion. And the greatest Art is that which excites the greatest impersonal emotion in an hypothecated perfect human being.
Quotes to Explore
-
Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
-
If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
-
I write in a small office at home.
-
With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
-
There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
-
There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
-
We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
-
Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
-
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
-
I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
-
I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
-
I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
-
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
-
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
-
Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
-
Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
-
And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
-
I think I look pretty decent in a tux.
-
Nobody ever feels rich.
-
Earth's biosphere gave birth to humans and our thoughts, which are now reshaping its planetary cycles. A planet with brains? Fancy that.
-
I have fond memories of Chris Penn, who's sadly not with us. He always made me laugh - it was great to be with him.
-
I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn't catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.
-
Art is that imaginative expression of human energy, which, through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with the universal, by exciting in him impersonal emotion. And the greatest Art is that which excites the greatest impersonal emotion in an hypothecated perfect human being.
