Lionel Trilling Quotes

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

Lionel Trilling

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• In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • End
  • Dreams

• Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Dark
  • Name
  • Immigration

• I really like just super dry comedy.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Just

• I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Women
  • May
  • Weird

• I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Me
  • Illness

• If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Good
  • Walk
  • Feel Good

• Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Done
  • Health
  • Day

• My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Confidence
  • Path

• Those who own much have much to fear.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Fear
  • Own
  • Those

• The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Real
  • Dying

• Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Truth
  • War

• Even the bad things are better than they used to be. Bad music, for instance, has gotten much briefer. Wagner's Ring Cycle takes four days to perform while 'Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm' by the Crash Test Dummies lasts little more than three minutes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Music
  • Bad

• Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Help

• We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may 'conquer' them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May
  • Nature

• Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger-according to the way you react to it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• Life’s nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life

• δῶς

  

  Archimedes

• I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, 'You're wrong' I say, 'What can you expect of an ass?'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Tea

• You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought.

  

  Mariella Frostrup

• In my district, I know we have thousands of little creeks and streams, some of which only fill up when it rains. Nationwide, they're in the tens of thousands.

  

  Hal Rogers
  • Up
  • Know
  • Little

• 'Community,' that loaded word so beloved of politicians, is simply not a reality in most people's lives. It's normal for us to be cut off from each other.

  

  John Lanchester
  • People
  • Reality
  • Community

• The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

  

  Lionel Trilling