Zeno Vendler Quotes

To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi.

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• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • World
  • Live
  • Write

• My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Talent

• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Enough
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Children
  • Today
  • House

• The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Choice

• If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Healthy
  • Gain

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Power
  • History
  • Past

• I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Women
  • Career
  • Loved

• Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

  

  Maimonides
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Ignorant

• I've just always been a bit of a dork.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Always
  • Just
  • Dork

• A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • May
  • Soul

• I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Friends
  • College

• I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Band
  • Rest
  • Year

• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Child
  • Promise

• We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • God
  • Friends

• Sometimes, when the neighborhood is silent and the sky is aswarm with the stars and the mind is swirling like a flushed toilet, a person gets to doubting himself. In the hardest times, the stand-at-the-kitchen-sink-and-stare-into-the blackness times, I put on Bob Dylan's 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time.'

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • Music
  • Art
  • Nature

• I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

  

  King James I
  • Govern
  • Weal

• To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi.

  

  Zeno Vendler
  • Mind