Susanne Langer Quotes

A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

Susanne Langer

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• I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
  • Fan
  • Supportive

• Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Creativity
  • See
  • Move

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • World
  • America
  • Change

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
  • Choice

• I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Good
  • Luck

• Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Powerful
  • Thing
  • Very

• War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Good
  • War
  • Evil

• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Me
  • Reasons
  • Ordinary

• My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Space
  • Project
  • Outer Space

• A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Age
  • Woman
  • Everything

• I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • True
  • Stories

• I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Write
  • First

• A great artist is a great man in a great child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Man
  • Child

• Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Sea
  • Unknown

• I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• It is not the circumstances that make a person a success. It is how that person responds to those circumstances

  

  Aleatha Romig
  • Persons
  • Circumstances

• England’s genius filled all measure Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure, Gave to the mind its emperor, And life was larger than before: Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare’s wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Mind

• A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Form