Susanne Langer Quotes

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

Susanne Langer

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• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Work
  • motivation
  • Work Hard

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Face

• What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Film
  • Learn
  • Possible

• Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • True
  • Earth
  • Know

• If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Work
  • Country
  • Together

• I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • May
  • Stop
  • Years

• My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • World
  • America

• One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Car

• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Freedom
  • You
  • Clever

• It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.

  

  Zhou Yongkang
  • Peace
  • China
  • Partnership

• I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Try

• I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Everything
  • Letters
  • Ever

• You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Family
  • Job

• I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Inspiration
  • Leader

• This is Phobos... Its mean density is known, and it is consistent with organic matter. Deimos... same story.

  

  Carl Sagan

• Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrix ex aliis alias reparat natura figuras: nec perit in toto quicquam, mihi credite, mundo, sed variat faciemque novat, nascique vocatur incipere esse aliud, quam quod fuit ante, morique desinere illud idem. cum sint huc forsitan illa, haec translata illuc, summa tamen omnia constant.

  

  Ovid

• Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • America

• All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Time
  • Art
  • Effort

• I'm completely the opposite of an etiquette icon. I'm brash, and I don't follow any social rules, really. I'm nice, but really, I'm the least-put-together lady in the world.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • World
  • Together
  • Nice

• If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

  

  Max Born
  • World
  • God
  • Success

• I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'

  

  Jason Ritter
  • Dad
  • Proud

• We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • World
  • Art
  • Rhythm