“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.” ArtFactsIndividualObjectsStrikesRelatedOur SocietyThree Strikes Author:Michel Foucault
“America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.” PeopleYearsHeartMayPersonsMadeTwoWarAmericaSufferingLanguageViewsCompassionEventsObjectsTearsSorrowDrawsEarsPrejudicePropertyDeterminedRevengeStrikesArguingFollyTwo YearsResentmentEloquenceDoubtfulHardnessExpulsion Book:THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including Source: THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including
“For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.” LevelsObjectsOrdinarySticksEnvyStrikesLightningFelicity Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.” WorldGivingArtSoulJobsPoetryForcePositionObjectsPoetHabitDuesStrikesInvisibleVisibleTragicUnusualGlue Author:Jean Cocteau
“My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.” IfsI CanLibertyObjectsSticksBlowEntertainmentStrikesMotion Pictures Author:John Wayne
“Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.” ShouldYearsMeanMadeSometimesUsedFoundNiceOur LivesObjectsBalanceStriveStrikesDecadesBuyingEquationsFound Objects Author:Nate Berkus
“Turbulence.” This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, “Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence.” Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water-buffalo organs off the windshield.” TryingLittlesWaterObjectsCleanFolksSizeStrikesFlyingEnormousPlanesPilotsOrgansBuffaloClean WaterTurbulenceAirborneShudderingCockpitWater Buffalo Author:Dave Barry