Susanne Langer Quotes
The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
Susanne Langer
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The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
Patrick deWitt
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A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
Ted Williams
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Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
Ian MacKaye
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Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.
Walter Scott
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
Jacob Bronowski
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Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'
H. P. Lovecraft
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I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I'd love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons.
Ben Elliot
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Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison.
Yoko Ono
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TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.
Jillian Bach
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I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.
Joachim Frank
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The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
Ellen G. White
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The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
Susanne Langer