Susanne Langer Quotes
Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.
Susanne Langer
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
Nargis Fakhri
Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
Sally Quinn
Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
Rachel Zoe
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
Larry Elder
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
E. F. Schumacher
As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
Gavin Newsom
Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.
Patrick Warburton
It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
Yotam Ottolenghi
I enjoy every role I do.
Ian McShane
I'm not someone who feels settled.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
Cab Calloway
At no moment do I know what I’m talking about, nor of whom, nor of where, nor how, nor why, but I could employ fifty wretches for this sinister operation and still be short of the fifty-first, to close the circuit, that I know, without knowing what it means.
Samuel Beckett
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
Neil Kinnock
Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
Betty Friedan
I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.
Donald Trump
When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.
Utah Phillips
He wrote Helen that 'a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you.'
John Irving
Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.
Susanne Langer
