Northrop Frye Quotes

Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.

Northrop Frye

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• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Future
  • Like
  • See

• I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Me
  • Everyone

• I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Fall
  • Like
  • Hard

• What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Think
  • Civilization

• How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Week

• We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Christian
  • Humanity

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Air
  • Matter
  • Rich

• The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Growth
  • Path
  • Temptation

• Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Worry
  • Start
  • July

• I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Up
  • Women
  • Passion

• Human beings have always been mythmakers.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Always
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• A group of painters assembled in my home, read with pleasure the article you published in 'L'Avenir national'. We are all very pleased to see you defend ideas which are also ours, and we hope that, as you say, 'L'Avenir national' will kindly lend us its support when the Society we are in the process of forming is finally established.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Home
  • Hope
  • Society

• Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. (This quotation is from Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951, not Myth of Sisyphus. The quotation appears in none of Camus books you find in bookstores).

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Energy

• The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Experience
  • Culture

• The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Intelligence

• A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.

  

  Maya Beiser
  • Music
  • Family
  • Done

• I've noticed that a lot of people, subsequently, when they introduce me are very careful not to say the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. A lot more people are saying Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.

  

  Jeremy Hunt
  • People
  • Culture

• Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means having as rich and noble a heritage of language, culture, patriotism and heroic deeds as any nation on earth. Let us teach a steadfast faith in Divine Providence, a stable family institution, the unhampered enjoyment of civil liberties, the advantages of constitutional government, the potentials of a rich and spacious land.

  

  Carlos P. Romulo
  • People
  • Earth
  • Culture

• Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Culture
  • Healthy
  • Movement