Rudolf Arnheim Quotes

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

Rudolf Arnheim

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• The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Know
  • Say
  • Just

• The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Beautiful
  • Construction
  • Spy

• Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Up
  • Moving
  • Star

• If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Pilot

• I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Teacher

• Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Always

• As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Government
  • Like
  • Back

• We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.

  

  Desmond Tutu

• The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Rest
  • Present
  • Population

• I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Morning
  • Girlfriend
  • Delicious

• I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Trying
  • Game

• I put my arm around her and said, "Jas, I have found that when you are troubled, it is often better to think of others rather than yourself. I think you would feel much better if you got me some milky coffee and jammy dodgers and I told you all about me.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Feels
  • Coffee
  • Found

• Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.

  

  Dagmar Godowsky
  • Words

• They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Real
  • Golf
  • Excellence

• Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • World
  • Heart
  • Brain

• In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Age
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • May
  • Soul

• He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay aside the doubt; and if he has not hitherto done so, he must confess it, at least, as it is before God. But the scrupulous, who have doubts about everything, must follow another rule: they must obey their confessor. When he tells them to conquer their doubts, and to act against scruples, they should obey with exactness; otherwise they will render themselves unable and unfit to perform any spiritual exercise.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Done
  • Spiritual

• Reality is always the foe of famous names.

  

  Petrarch
  • Reality
  • Names
  • Foe

• He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Men
  • Peace

• I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • America

• In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Order
  • Senses
  • Instance