Miguel Syjuco Quotes
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
Miguel Syjuco
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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.
Elizabeth Janeway
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.
Vladimir Nabokov
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton
Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
William Stafford
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
Will Self
You never can expect what people's reactions are going to be. You can only hope that everyone feels the way that you do.
Mel B
Spice Girls
Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.
Natalie Portman
The most incredible thing about playing the songs live for people - looking out to the crowd and seeing the different reactions and the different heart-strings and the things that people are relating to that mean something to them, that's crazy.
Hayley Williams
Paramore
You had to stay awake married to Humphrey Bogart. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.
Lauren Bacall
With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.
George Smoot
