Gleaning Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other. — Griffin Dunne

Thomas Jefferson had rather serious concerns about the fate of the democratic experiment.28 He feared the rise of a new form of absolutism that was more ominous than the British rule overthrown in the American Revolution. He distinguished in his later years between what he called "aristocrats and democrats."29 And then he went on to say, "I hope we shall ... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country."30 He also wrote, "I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."31 That's the kind of quote from a Founding Father you don't see too much. — Noam Chomsky

Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a spirit of encroachment and aggression, by humiliations which nourish their pride, or by concessions that extend their resources and power. — James Madison

Photography is the product of complete alienation. — Marcel Proust

My people, you gotta think before you move, you gotta speak before you cry, you gotta live before you die. — Lil B

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking. — Kate Bush