Andrew Dufresne Quotes & Sayings

Progressivism is the belief that we have too much freedom with which to make too many stupid choices. — David Harsanyi

Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it? — Greg Proops

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner. — Huey Newton

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people — Edgar Degas

And when, at last, ... I stood in London with ten pounds in my hand - five of which I promptly lost - the ancestors dwelling in my blood who, all my life, had summoned me with insistent eldritch voices, murmured together, like contented cats. — P.L. Travers

Only the weak blame their past for the faults they find in their present; the strong acknowledge the effects of their past and then move on from it. We are all free to choose whether we will be weak or strong. — Penny Jordan

The question was, 'Is there a way of minimizing the amount of damage you're doing so that you can then study cells in a physiological manner while also studying them at high spatial and temporal resolution for a long time?' — Eric Betzig

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man. — John Steinbeck

If to look is to look at what is contained within its limitations, to see is to see the limitations themselves. Each new school of painting is new not because ti now contains subject matter ignored in earlier work, but because it sees the limitations previous artists imposed on their subject matter but could not see themselves. The earlier artists worked within the outlines they imagined; the later reworked their imaginations. — James P. Carse

Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom. — Victor Hugo

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. — Geraldine Brooks