Susanne Langer Quotes

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

Susanne Langer

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• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Life
  • End
  • My Life

• The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Long
  • Foundation

• When you cease to dream you cease to live.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Walking

• I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Men
  • Home
  • Remember

• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Late

• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Arrogance

• I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Up
  • You
  • Film

• The creation of NIT has ensured some seats for admission in undergraduate courses for students of Arunachal Pradesh, which will bound to uplift economics of locality directly or indirectly and help in enhancing human development index in the state.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Help
  • Creation
  • Economics

• A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Judge
  • Rules
  • Evidence

• I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I could probably recite just about every song that was on country radio between 1990 and 2000.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Song
  • Radio

• I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Feelings
  • More
  • Married

• It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Always
  • Positive
  • Possible

• An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Think
  • Me
  • Word

• When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

  

  Ouida
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friends

• Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens us. All we need to do is stop pounding on the door that just closed, turn around-which puts the door behind us-and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls. The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Attention
  • Understanding

• Nay, come up hither. From this wave-wash'd mound Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me; Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd. Miles and miles distant though the last line be, And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,- Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea.

  

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Sea

• We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything.

  

  John Hunter

• Since Stark had come back from the Otherworld, he'd been too weak and out of it to do much more than eat, sleep, and play computer games with Seoras, which was actually a super weird sight, it was like high school meets Braveheart meets Call of Duty.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • School
  • High
  • Sleep

• What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Understanding
  • Feelings