Conceptually Driven Quotes & Sayings

The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea, then you have an answer to the idea in another voice, then you have a counter idea accompanying the original idea, and you build up your texture like that. I'm really into Kruder and Dorfmeister at the moment, and they do the same thing. — Charles Hazlewood

There's an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed into a woman. And that's how humans reproduced. And I thought, 'How could I really understand that?' — William T. Vollmann

It's through our past, that we gain our Future. BW. 2006 — Brandi Winans

Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows. — Nisargadatta Maharaj

And on the other long side, completely alone, sat Becca's father.
The Guide.
"Call me Bill," he'd said.
Yeah, Gabriel had a few ideas of what to call him. — Brigid Kemmerer

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization. — Anais Nin

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry ... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it. — Charles Durning

The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray. — Chuck Smith

I mean emotionally, women are like Bruce Lee and we're like Donald Duck. An' I think a lotta guys are afraid of that. — Jonathan Ashworth

The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans. — Gary Sinise

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know, my degrees are in computer engineering. I spent a lot of time in the tech industry. And I like to say that I don't invest in tech because I spent time in it. And I saw firsthand that the durability of technology moats is many times an oxymoron. — Mohnish Pabrai

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. — Juvenal

The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief. — Colm Toibin

Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities. — Simon Sinek