Ananda Coomaraswamy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
-
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
-
Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
-
I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
-
For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
-
Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
-
I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
-
The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
-
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
-
It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
-
I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
-
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
-
I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
-
No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
-
Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.
-
Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
-
If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
-
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
-
The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.
-
Would you like to be famous? In what way?
-
It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
-
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
-
Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.
-
What I have sought is to understand what has been said.
