“It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.” IdeasEyeImaginationGreaterMarkAddressesConfined Author:J. M. W. Turner
“As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.” IfsHas BeensTodayBeautifulGivenMy OwnGreaterRegretMarkWinnerPrizeAwardsNobelNobel PrizeCountrymenNobel Prize Winners Book:Conversations with Ernest Hemingway Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
“People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.” PeopleSidesCreativityGreaterSeaEffectsSourceGeniusFunctionMarkObsessionDragAnchorsInconvenientBadgesSide EffectsBrakeOcd Author:David Adam
“What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.” IfsMadeSelfFilmArtistInterestUnitedCompanyGreaterReturnHollywoodMarkProtectionAllowingDistributionSelf InterestAlliancesCrazinessDistributorsHartChaplin Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.” PeopleEyeRichGreaterMarkRichesChiefsEnjoymentRich PeopleParadesOpulence Author:Adam Smith
“If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.” IfsMenCountryDiesWishLossGreaterSharePrayingMarkGods WillOur CountryTheeOne ManHonourFewerI Pray Book:Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
“Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility.” PeopleMayLyingBeliefGivenMoralGreaterPossibilityTruth IsIntellectualIllusionWeightMarkRhetoricDisturbingRelevanceAttractivenessIrresponsibilityShallownessBlatant Lies Author:Alister E. McGrath
“When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.” GreaterProjectsMarkCreditTerritoryWholesale Author:Jon Spaihts