Bilene Quotes & Sayings

The homicide detective was engaging in emotional catharsis, throwing up verbally. "What — Jens Buhler

I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime. — Jim Harbaugh

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it. — Charles Lamb

When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book. — Madison Pettis

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too. — Brian Eno

Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind. — Bernard Lewis

If what Jesus said was good, and so much of it was absolutely beautiful, what does it matter if he was God or not? — Kurt Vonnegut

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries. — Ellen Langer

The sentimentality of kitsch is a sign of its falseness. But it is also a sign of its extravagance. Unanchored to reality, sentimentality is naturally unbounded. Kitsch is a response to a failure or disintegration of cultural values. When the world no longer speaks meaningfully to us, we shout into the void and pretend the echoes come to us from on high.

The grandiosity of kitsch is in proportion to the existential poverty out of which it arose. In this context, it is worth noting a limitation of that dictionary definition of kitsch. The sentimentality of kitsch can be "sweet," but it can also be sour, malignant. — Roger Kimball