Harold Bloom Quotes
Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.Harold Bloom
Quotes to Explore
-
My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
J. B. Pritzker -
At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
Nancy Gibbs -
To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
Garry Shandling -
I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
R. L. Stine -
I don't think I have a black-hat image.
Harold Simmons -
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
Nancy Friday
-
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
Padmasree Warrior -
No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
Salma Hayek -
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Van Morrison -
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
Rachael Taylor -
People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
Octavia Spencer
-
My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
Larry Elder -
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
Vanilla Ice -
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
Olivia Newton-John -
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
Kate Millett -
I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.
Barbara Ehrenreich
-
As for 'taste' as a criterion of painting I find that it is most frequently applied to work that is essentially insensitive, brutal or vulgar beyond question. Could it now be a term with political undertones to seduce, or cover profounder motives of exploitation? I propose it be kept to the wine cellar. There it deceives no one but him who over-indulges.
Clyfford Still -
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
Judy Blume -
Beware:IgnoranceProtects itselfIgnorancePromotes suspicion.SuspicionEngenders fear.Fear quails,Irrational and blind,Or fear looms,Defiant and closed.Blind, closed,Suspicious, afraid,IgnoranceProtects itself,And protected,Ignorance grows.
Octavia E. Butler -
I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.
Martin Freeman -
The Gospel is ‘Good News’, not ‘Good History’, because when it’s preached, it happens.
Reinhard Bonnke -
Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.
Harold Bloom