Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes

The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.

Florence Scovel Shinn

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Eye

• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Chance
  • Year
  • Birthday

• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Positive
  • Research
  • Negative

• I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Doing
  • Looking
  • Roots

• I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Done
  • Art
  • Today

• Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • America
  • Culture

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Star

• There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • You
  • Energy
  • Urban

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • You
  • Wife
  • Honey

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• I like to make my name of songs strange.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Like
  • Name
  • Strange

• Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Art
  • Society
  • Learn

• No two wars are identical.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Two
  • Wars
  • Identical

• The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Unique
  • Place
  • Special

• What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • American
  • Today

• One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.

  

  Geoff Davis
  • Time

• Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.

  

  Charles Bartlett Johnson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Black

• When people were like, "Oh, wow, Donald Trump is so crazy. That's so nuts, what's happening?" in the 9 a.m. meeting, Jon Stewart was like, "No, I've seen this before, in Robert Mugabe. I've seen Trump as an African dictator. You guys don't know about nationalist rhetoric all over Europe?" "No, I thought we were the center of the world." He has the ability to actually talk about that in a real way: "Oh, I've been there. I've talked to people there. This is just the remix on stuff that's been brewing for three, four years." That's something very special.

  

  Hasan Minhaj
  • People
  • Donald Trump
  • Jon Stewart

• In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York.

  

  David Chang

• The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • People
  • Mind
  • Humor