Cassius Jackson Keyser Quotes

If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously (which they might learn to do), at least half the pseudo-questions befuddling the world today - as they have befuddled it since time immemorial - would vanish. And that would be a very, very great gain.

Cassius Jackson Keyser

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• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Time
  • World
  • She

• I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • World
  • Relationships
  • Romance

• One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Team
  • Win

• Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Job
  • True

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • World
  • Rest
  • Looking

• I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • World
  • Happy
  • Reading

• I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • World
  • Understanding

• This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

  

  Earl Browder
  • World
  • Power
  • Growth

• In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Soul
  • Really

• There is a possibility that there is somebody out there alive today over 122, but we'll probably never know it, because in all likelihood they come from either China or India, and they don't have reliable birth records.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Today
  • Know
  • Never

• 'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Adventure

• When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Party

• There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.

  

  Elton John
  • People
  • World
  • Awesome

• And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Dark
  • Vision

• Maybe the world..has run out of room..for monsters.

  

  Alan Moore
  • World

• The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • World
  • Live
  • Man

• To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Secret
  • Half
  • One

• The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • World
  • Night
  • Christ

• There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Song

• Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Different
  • Growth
  • Comes

• If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously (which they might learn to do), at least half the pseudo-questions befuddling the world today - as they have befuddled it since time immemorial - would vanish. And that would be a very, very great gain.

  

  Cassius Jackson Keyser
  • World
  • Today
  • Might