Isaac Watts Quotes
When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.
Isaac Watts
Quotes to Explore
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
Otto Dix
If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
Malcolm Gladwell
I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
Jack O'Brien
In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
Gabriel Luna
They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
Barbara Amiel
Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.
Walter Murch
Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
Kara Walker
What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script.
Larenz Tate
Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
Camille Paglia
Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?
Langston Hughes
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
Cory Doctorow
There must be no more pictures covered in brown sauce c. 1880, when Munch started to paint series of landscapes in fresh colors
Edvard Munch