I Quotes
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“In the story, which is only a few chapters long in Genesis, Noah never even speaks until after the flood - but when you have Russell Crowe, you're going to make him speak.”
“In the stout-hearted person of Harrison Ford, Indy was a new generation’s Ethan Edwards—a young John Wayne-bwana dispatched to curate the Third World. Not an identity-cloaked sci-fi superhero but a bullwhip-toting, fedora-wearing, two-fisted sophisticate who respected the Bible and saved the children of India—a superb hero yet an intrinsically nostalgic figure.”
Source: Make Spielberg Great Again: The Steven Spielberg Chronicles
“In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind.”
Source: Berenice
“In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.”
“In the stream,
Rushing past
To the dusty world,
My fleeting form
Casts no reflection.”
“In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“In the street below, a posh-looking drunk man is reading the card of a prostitute, Blue-Tacked up by a doorbell. He’s examining it with all the forensic care I presume he puts into reading a wine list.
‘What are you looking for?’ I ask him, in my head. ‘What woman will go best with your main course of terrible, horny loneliness?’
I speculate, briefly, on how different the world would be if it were run by women. In that world, if you were a lonely, horny woman – as I am. As I always am – you’d see Blu-tacked postcards by Soho doorways that read, ‘Nice man in cardigan, 24, will talk to you about The Smiths whilst making you cheese-on-toast + come to parties with you. Apply within.”
Source: How to Build a Girl
“in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems”
Source: Selected poems
“In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.”
“In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.”
“In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak.”
“In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding from street to tree to hydrant to trash basket. They are apartment dogs. They are taken out twice a day, and, while it is a cliché, it is truly amazing how owner and dog resemble each other. They grow to walk alike and have the same set of head.”
“In the streets outside everything was still. The hour before five was the only time of day this city slept. In my earlier life, during the twelve years I had lived in Bergen I used to stay up at night as often as I could. I never reflected on this, it was just something I liked and did. It had started as a student ideal, grounded in a notion that in some way night was associated with freedom. Not in itself but as a response to the nine-to-four reality which I, and a couple of others, regarded as middle-class and conformist. We wanted to be free, we stayed up at night. Continuing with this had less to do with freedom than a growing need to be alone. This, I understood now, I shared with my father. In the house where we lived he had a whole studio apartment to himself and he spent more or less every evening there. The night was his.”
“In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed”
“In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.”
Source: Travels in England in 1782
“In the streets where poverty and misery prevail, there is everything but the street, huge stones, big pits, deep holes and so on!”
“In the strength of God, you can crush any army”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“In the strength of the Lord we can do and endure and overcome all things.”
“In the strengthening the core job, a leader can draw on their past experiences. After all, in most cases they did the job of the people that are reporting to them! So they know when something is screwed up, they know the risks worth taking, and they know the corners to cut. But when they are creating the new, no one knows what the right answer is.”
“In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin”
Source: Books and Men
“In the strict formulation of the law of causality—if we know the present, we can calculate the future—it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise.
On an implication of the uncertainty principle.”
“In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.”
“In the strictest sense, we cannot actually think about life and reality at all, because this would have to include thinking about thinking, thinking about thinking about thinking, and so ad infinitum. One can only attempt a rational, descriptive philosophy of the universe on the assumption that one is totally separate from it. But if you and your thoughts are part of this universe, you cannot stand outside them to describe them.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.”
Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)
“In the Strongs' case, Lidy taught Hiram everything he knew about making shine. A medicine woman of sorts, she often turned to tinctures for those seeking relief. Made with their homemade liquor, the elixirs could offer a much-needed calming effect at a certain dosage or serve as a painkiller in larger ones.
As for special ingredients, she rarely made the same recipe twice. Lidy loved nothing more than tossing a bucketful of overripe peaches or the innards of a mushy melon into the corn mash. Or fermenting some fresh fruit in a batch of shine to make her hooch something special--- and giving those peaches or pawpaws a kick. Shine's daddy had followed suit. But they didn't speak of that extra "somethin'-somethin'" outside the family. You went to your grave with that shit. Or you might get put in it early.”
Source: The Moonshine Women
“In the struggle against inhumanity, don't try to be the last person standing, be the first person standing.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.”
“In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.”
“In the struggle between yourself
and the world, second the world.
(Im Kampf zwischen Dir
und der Welt, sekundiere der Welt)”
Source: The Zürau Aphorisms
“In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.”
“In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.”
“In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.”
“In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.”
“In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds is sure to be hailed by the majority as the victor. That is the only god--Success. As to what expense, what terrible cost to character, is of no moment.”
Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.”
“In the struggle for the rights of the poor in Central America and other places where globalization is bringing its negative effects, there is no organization more effective than the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.”
“In the struggle for the soul of American Jewry, the Orthodox model has triumphed.”
Source: Jew Vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry
“In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.”
“In the struggle to defend the legacy of Leninism . . . [Stalin] proved himself to be an outstanding Marxist-Leninist fighter. . . . Stalin's works should, as before, be seriously studied . . . [to] see what is correct and what is not.”
“In the struggle to remain a complete person and to love from her fullness instead of her inadequacy a woman may appear hard. She may feel her early conditioning tugging her in the direction of surrender, but she ought to remember that she was originally loved for herself; she ought to hang on to herself and not find herself nagging, helpless, irritable and trapped. Perhaps I am not old enough yet to promise that the self-reliant woman is always loved, but she cannot be lonely as long as there are people in the world who need her joy and her strength, but certainly in my experience it has always been so. Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins. A lover who comes to your bed of his own accord is more likely to sleep with his arms around you all night than a lover who has nowhere else to sleep.”
Source: the female eunuch
“In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it allowed for me to get outside of Yale, to get outside of art-speak, and to really think about art as a material practice that has very useful and pragmatic material precedent.”
“In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.”
“In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.”
“In the studio we spend a lot of time working our what materials will work best and also last. We do tests and come back to them years later to see how they are still performing, and this leads our decisions.”
“In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic, dental acrylic, traditional and high-tech plasters, stainless steel, automotive paint, plywood, Britannia metal, found objects and taxidermy animals.”
“In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.”
“In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.”
“In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.”
“In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff.”
“In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.”