Isolable Quotes & Sayings

I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads. — William Shakespeare

[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style as a problematic and isolable element in a work of art has emerged in the audience for art only at certain historical moments - as a front behind which other issues, ultimately ethical and political, are being debated. — Susan Sontag

There was silence. It was a slick sort of silence, the sort that would make bystanders turn their head to note it, same as a loud laugh. — Maggie Stiefvater

I love having the laid-back, easy-going, family-priority nature of New Zealand, but I'm certainly enjoying the States in terms of the career opportunities and the enthusiasm I get to find work. — Rose McIver

I needed to call him or my parents. Immediately. I rolled my eyes. Couldn't have been that important, because you'd think one of them would've picked up the phone and called me if it had been.
That was my family, though. Everyone of them felt as if they should not have to pic up the phone. They were too busy for that, too important. Even my cousin, who apparently had a shit-ton of time to send emails. — J. Lynn

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television. — Stephen Lang

I don't spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by which a dowser locates hidden water. I am walking along and suddenly the junk in my cells moves and twitches like the dowsers wand: 'Junk here! — William S. Burroughs

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it — Gautama Buddha

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. — Francois Fenelon

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard. — Vikram Seth

For today ... Be kind to those in despair.
Your words, thoughts and prayers can be the difference between one's life or demise — Timothy Pina

Internal growth and development were not entirely unaffected by my external environment. No amount of escapism, through either the physical or the mental outlets, could cushion me from the reality of what was taking place. — Sara Niles

If these d'Herelle bodies were really genes, fundamentally like our chromosome genes, they would give us an utterly new angle from which to attack the gene problem. They are filterable, to some extent isolable, can be handled in test-tubes, and their properties, as shown by their effects on the bacteria, can then be studied after treatment. It would be very rash to call these bodies genes, and yet at present we must confess that there is no distinction known between the genes and them. Hence we can not categorically deny that perhaps we may be able to grind genes in a mortar and cook them in a beaker after all. Must we geneticists become bacteriologists, physiological chemists and physicists, simultaneously with being zoologists and botanists? Let us hope so. — Hermann Joseph Muller

A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet. — Victoria Wood

I make different choices in regards to the stories I want to be a part of. In my mind, it's a totally different medium. Commercials are little skits, and movies are stories; I became a little more picky in my choices for stories that I wanted to be involved in. — Scoot McNairy

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you. — Hank Azaria