Ben Sollee Quotes

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly.

Ben Sollee

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• Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Peace
  • Stories
  • Roles

• Julian Mack has had two straight games playing much more actively.

  

  Joe Davis
  • Games
  • Active
  • Julian Mack

• People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • People
  • Dumb

• Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Way
  • Smart
  • Books

• We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Road

• In my quiet, I was working something out.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Working
  • Quiet

• Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Lord

• What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Way
  • Born
  • Adages

• All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying "Nobody can put a boundary around me."

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Guy
  • Jazz
  • Boundaries

• When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Work
  • God
  • Prayer

• God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Made

• Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Feels
  • Pride
  • Pleasure

• The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Society
  • Image
  • Needles

• The present moment is a powerful goddess.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Present
  • Goddess

• Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Giving
  • Reflection
  • Roots

• We will support the long-term economic development of new, innovative activities in the space and satellite industries as a key high-tech sector for Luxembourg.

  

  Etienne Schneider
  • Support
  • Development
  • Industries

• I have talked to you in the past but we have always exchanged pleasantries. And it has always been assumed that I am Kaltenbrunner, the big bad man next to Himmler and the successor of Himmler. But I think you can see by this time, after having treated my brain hemorrhages, both in the hospital and here in my cell, that I am not the disagreeable, uncouth fellow the public probably thinks because of all the atrocities committed under Himmler's rule, and of which I am totally innocent.

  

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner
  • Rule
  • Atrocities
  • Himmler

• I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Art
  • Ideas
  • Prove

• Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Attention
  • Authority

• Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly.

  

  Ben Sollee
  • Art Is
  • Consume
  • Different Ways