Denoted Def Quotes & Sayings

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence. — Jim Carrey

Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of. — Marisha Pessl

Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural neatness which the housewife sees somehow shadowing her familiar furniture, it was largely possible to disregard, or not-quite-hear, Sally, but in the car I was entirely what I believe is called a captive audience. — Shirley Jackson

Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord. — Immanuel Kant

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life. — Cate Blanchett

Every now and then, I need a little spark of inspiration. It could be from reading (a novel, poetry, story, news article, a blog) or it could be attending an event (play, musical performance, poetry reading, writers conference). Something to wake up the drowsy Artist that lives within. For the past seven months, I have done all of these things and I noticed that my Artist has been up writing articles, a children's story, and most recently, working on new poems. After several years of hibernation, it is good to see my Artist so active. I must continue to give her a jolt to inspire her to do much more. — Sandra Proto

He seemed to be buffeted from both sides, challenged by his dreams, which revolted at the compromises of reality, and assaulted by reality which denounced the emptiness of all dreams.
He seemed to spend himself in that struggle - the severest that a man can face; and he seemed to win by a constant renewal of effort in which he refused to sink either into placid acceptance of the world, or into self-contained satisfaction with his vision. — Walter Lippmann

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain. — H.R. Giger

As we live together in Scripture as "Our One True Story of God for the Whole World," we come to know its authority in and through Jesus Christ.22 Anything less reduces Scripture to a collection of facts or feelings. — David E. Fitch

Everybody can remember outfits like Celine Dion's backwards Dior tuxedo ... these 'worst' dresses become part of pop culture, and we keep referencing them. — Brad Goreski

In my mind Greece is reduced to one vast pile of shattered marble, shimmering in a heat aze. — William Boyd

Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy. — Adam Davidson