Materialized Abstraction Quotes & Sayings

Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I'm sure about is I'm real ordinary. Yet I've had the chance to touch the lives of a lotta people. — Werner Erhard

If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege. — Jonathan Carroll

I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end. — Michael Angarano

I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes you've got to give until it hurts. — Jonathan Evison

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it — Cormac McCarthy

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it. — Charles Caleb Colton

It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, 'My God, do you think we'll ever learn to fly anything this big?' — Ernest K. Gann

she was a little frightened that first afternoon. There seemed such a huge expanse of water and sky, and so little of herself. — Joan G. Robinson

I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial. — David Hockney

There are problems connected with infidelity and problems connected with being faithful at any cost, and I am for letting those concerned choose the problems they'd prefer. There need not be one rule for all. Infidelity is enlarging and fragmenting and very very dangerous, but it has been known to retrieve people as well as marriages, so it can't be only bad. — Merle Shain

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds. — James Van Allen

If I have to sacrifice to give you everything you want, if I have to change who I am, whatever I have to do - tell me. It's done. I can't believe I thought I could live without you. — Kendall Ryan

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. — Ravi Shankar

Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness - a savagery without stain. — Martin Amis

I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often. — Nancy Sinatra