I Quotes
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“In poche righe le confessava le sue emozioni dicendo di essersi sentito "come nell'Allegro con Brio della Sonata 50 in Re Maggiore di Haydn".”
Source: The Piano Tuner
“In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.”
“In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.”
“In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.”
“In poetry, as in time, a moment can stretch into eternity or an eternity can disappear in a single breath...”
“In Poetry class, Professor Sappho teaches us how to compose love ballads. She's a swell teacher and all but I'm not sure I understand her. She's always going on and on about her weekend trips with the other goddesses to the island of Lesbos.”
Source: Cupid's Academy: The Miseducation of Mergatroyd, Love god in Training
“In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.”
“In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.”
“In poetry I am sufi,
In philosophy I am advaitin.
In duty I am scientist,
In existence I am human.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being created, just like the world around us, never predictable, always shifting and intertwining, reflecting and echoing itself.”
“In poetry, the best way to say cuss words is to hide it behind metaphors.”
Source: The Coffee Cries Foul
“In poetry, there are no casual readers.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.”
“In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.”
“In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D.”
“In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.”
“In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.”
“In poetry, only emotion endures.”
“In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.”
“In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“In Point Break, I was the only woman in there, so it was pretty easy to feel like a sex symbol. You've got all the naked, wet, Hot Chili Peppers, right? You've got Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves and then the whole crew. It was me and 50 dudes the whole time. It was awesome!”
“In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.”
“In point of fact, however, whether a man works three days of the week for himself on his own field and three days for nothing on the estate of his lord, or whether he works in the factory or the workshop six hours daily for himself and six for his employer, comes to the same, although in the latter case the paid and unpaid portions of labour are inseparably mixed up with each other, and the nature of the whole transaction is completely masked by the intervention of a contract and the pay received at the end of the week. The gratuitous labour appears to be voluntarily given in the one instance, and to be compulsory in the other. That makes all the difference.”
Source: Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit
“In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.”
“In point of fact, life may be just a shaky expectation, inasmuch as everyone realizes that the cards have often been shuffled, well in advance.”
“In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.”
“In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.”
“In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.”
“In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results are not reliable or that the discrepancies which are asserted to exist between the experimental results and the theory are only apparent and that they will disappear with the advance of our understanding. If you insist on strict proof (or strict disproof) in the empirical sciences, you will never benefit from experience, and never learn from it how wrong you are.”
“In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block.”
Source: An essay on Christian philosophy
“In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.”
Source: The social criticism of Stephen Leacock
“In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.”
“In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us -- clearly, openly, without hesitations. . . . We lack the liberal, democratic tradition rich in all its gradations. We have instead the tradition of struggle: the extreme situation, the final gesture.”
“In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know what works in their individual markets.”
“In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.”
“In Poland, nobody is arrested or persecuted for political reasons.”
“In Poland, some people think that I'm kind of scandalous because I'm a woman who should stay at home with her kids instead of making movies about what I want and, even worse, addressing Polish taboos like church, homosexuals and history.”
“In polite circles, a man who was happy until then to shake my hand would hear my name...and pause. His shoulders would stiffen , and he might spot an acquaintance across the room, and need to meet him. Women who seemed perfectly gracious--as they heard my Indian surname, their eyes widen with understanding.”
Source: Murder in Old Bombay
“In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.”
“In polite society, there is such a thing as sensitivity to some issues, as time has gone on. There was a time when we weren't politically correct, at all, and we all wince at moments when we look to the past and see that. I don't really know what the answer is, as far as that is concerned. However, me, as an artist, I don't really think about it, at all. It actually is not my job to think about that, especially in terms of me, as a writer, but also as a filmmaker. I'm not worried about the filmmaking part because, if I'm writing it, that's what I'm going to do.”
“In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.”
“In politica non ci sono omicidi. In politica, lo sapete come me, mio caro, non ci sono uomini, ma solo idee; non ci sono sentimenti, ma interessi. In politica non si uccide un uomo, si elimina un ostacolo, e basta.”
Source: Il conte di Montecristo - volume 1
“In politica semplicemente non esiste, chi non dà con le idee ragione quotidiana al proprio diritto di esistere.”
“In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.”
“In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.”
“In political life, dissatisfaction is remedied, or at least combated, through action. For as long as you are not totally satisfied, you remain active and keep going. In literary life, at some point you have to stop and allow others to read what you have written. I find that difficult. I am probably too proud. In any case, that is why I have never published anything. But I do plan to do so one day.”
“In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way.”
“In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“In political sense, it doesn't really matter what I do on my own, but it's so important to rally some sort of collectiveness and reignite a collective vision, and I think that's something you can do effectively through art and music, and through writing and entertainment - and just through like, pop culture. It's about spreading ideas and making people think differently, essentially.”
“In politics, 99.99% of the time. those with louder voices are the ones who are receiving invoices. It is not about ethics, morals or integrity. It is about the paycheck. There is no checkmate but it is a check payment.”