“A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.” FeelsMeanDifferentSongSubjectsEmotionalAspectMereRepetitionAutonomousWallowing Author:St. Vincent
“Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazy… But being that woman who pushes the boundaries means you also bring in less desirable aspects of yourself. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.” WorldMeanEndsCrazyAspectExpectedBoundariesThe End Of The DayFrighteningDesirable Book:Girl in a Band Source: Girl in a Band
“It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.” PeopleMeanHappensComedySubjectsAspectAbortionCannibalismUptight Author:Rob McElhenney
“Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.” MenMeanHappensNaturalPaintingAspectPhenomenonLeafsMiraculousLettuceNatural Phenomena Book:Lee Krasner Source: Lee Krasner
“The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.” MeanTwoLife IsSufferingEnemyCivilizationEssentialsAspectSouthMortalsMannersCodeCharmTwo ThingsNativeSouthernEfficientEfficiencyBishopsCuisineAspects Of LifeCarelessnessMortal Enemies Author:Richard M. Weaver
“If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.” IfsMeanArtPerfectPowerfulIdentityPhotographyOrdinaryAspectAbsolutesDisappearDrawingClosestScrutinyResemblanceAbsolute TruthMicroscopesPhotogenic Author:Edgar Allan Poe
“Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True beauty grips your gut and squeezes your lungs, and makes you see with utmost clarity exactly what is before you. True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight.” HumansKindMeanRealAgeFormLostStepsWiseFairsAspectConstantInsightSurfaceClarityGutsTemporaryFadesShallowLungsTrue BeautyPlatitudesTrue WisdomLife Altering Author:Vera Nazarian
“The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the Arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources, or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of the most stunning aspects of their culture and one of the most potent means for developing their minds.” WorldMindMeanChildrenArtCultureTeacherResourcesAspectFundamentalsDenyAccessDevelopingContributionNeglectInadequateStunning Author:Elliot W. Eisner
“Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so on. While in fact very few people understand it, actually, as it stands, even as it stood when Darwin expressed it, and even less as we now may be able to understand it in biology.” PeopleThinkingMayMeanFactsAbleSocialTheoryEvolutionAspectScientistPhilosopherCuriousBiologyTheory Of Evolution Author:Jacques Monod
“From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense.” MeanDoeArtRealityDealsClassStudyExampleAspectPsychologicalInternalsConventionsTotality Book:Collected Works: Do what you will Source: Collected Works: Do what you will
“The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.” MeanDoeDealsObjectsTvsPicksAspectDirectCamerasSurfaceResolutionElectricalFacetsShutters Author:Marshall McLuhan
“A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.” MeanGovernmentWould BeEconomicPolicyAspectDeterminedCurrency Book:Reflections Source: Reflections