Viktor Shklovsky Defamiliarization Quotes & Sayings

Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position. — Maria Montessori

Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet. — Al Franken

I never dwell on what I've personally achieved. — Lubna Olayan

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman. — Sydney Pollack

and the wind gathered the leaves as a mother gathers her children and blew them irrevocably, lovingly, into the haunted wildness — Elliot Mabeuse

Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying, something will happen. — Frederick Lenz

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind. — Judy Davis

I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power. — Richard Adams

Foosball screwed up my perception of soccer. I though you had to kick the ball and then spin around and around. I can't do a back flip, much less several simultaneously with two other guys. — Mitch Hedberg

Lear Act IV, Scene 6
Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thy own back.
Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind
For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the
cozener.
Through tottered rags small vices do appear;
Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. (Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.
Lear Act IV, Scene 6
Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not.
Lear Act IV, Scene 6 — William Shakespeare

They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots. — Steven Tyler

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me. — Tim McGraw