Walter Pater Quotes
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Walter Pater
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
Walt Mossberg
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
Daniel Boone
This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
Irina Shayk
A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
Jack Falahee
You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
Cam Newton
I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
Carine Roitfeld
My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
Hans Vestberg
I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
Ira Glass
It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
J. Maarten Troost
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
Wangari Maathai
With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
W. Bruce Cameron
Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
Kathryn Harrison
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
Aminatta Forna
Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
We're taught as a society what is acceptable for women to look like and what's not. And where fat should be and shouldn't. And I think it's important to sometimes reprogram ourselves and recondition ourselves to not have so much negativity toward our own bodies.
Kether Donohue
The Secretary General, in a very real sense, is the servant of the General Assembly. Diminish his authority and you diminish the authority of the only body where all nations, regardless of power, are equal and sovereign. Until all the powerful are just, the weak will be secure only in the strength of this Assembly.
John F. Kennedy
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Walter Pater
