Camille Paglia Quotes
Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature.
Quotes to Explore
-
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
-
Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
-
The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
-
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
-
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
-
I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
-
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
-
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
-
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
-
Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
-
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
-
Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
-
I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
-
When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
-
I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
-
I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
-
I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
-
As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
-
Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.
-
In our culture, security has become an obsession.
-
A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding... and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.
-
Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
-
Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature.
