Earle Birney Quotes

Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.

Earle Birney

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• Truths
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• Rationality

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• Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Desire

• I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Years
  • Through
  • Over

• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • You
  • Decision
  • Forgive

• I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Google

• Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Focus
  • Awesome

• The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World
  • Exercise
  • Philanthropy

• Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Way
  • Person
  • Certainly

• I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.

  

  Gary Peters
  • Work
  • Struggle
  • Kitchen

• People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Try
  • Fake

• Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • People
  • Believe
  • Gardening

• How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies?  The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Life
  • Time
  • Spring

• On his bold visage middle ageHad slightly pressed its signet sage,Yet had not quenched the open truthAnd fiery vehemence of youth;Forward and frolic glee was there,The will to do, the soul to dare,The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,Of hasty love or headlong ire.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Soul
  • Fire
  • Bold

• It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Peace
  • Purpose

• I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • People
  • Writing

• Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Technology

• Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It's like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Important

• I was completely shocked that Prince would even know my name.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Prince

• Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

  

  David Axelrod
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Taken

• The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Country
  • War
  • Political

• Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • People
  • Technology

• I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

  

  Arthur Sullivan
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Forever

• Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.

  

  Earle Birney
  • Art
  • Balance
  • Truths