“A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.” KindArtDifferentPurposeSongFallHeardMinutesPureBirdPerformancesPracticalsRealmsDifferent KindsDisplayImitationMockingbirdVirtuoso Author:Tom Robbins
“Each person may see a fight in different ways... They can see more to a primal way. Others they can see in a pure artistic way... For me I see the pure artistic way, the way that a true martial artist can show his art.” WayMayPersonsArtDifferentShowsArtistFightingPureArtisticDifferent WaysMartial ArtsMmaPrimalMartial Artist Author:Roger Gracie
“When you're drug kingpin - you're a mayor. You are a governor. But of a different society. You get to do what you want to do, just like any mayor. You can park your car anywhere. You get the best women. You go to the restaurants and eat free. It was like being a rock star. Like being Magic Johnson or Michael Jordan. It was just pure freedom, everything I was looking for. I desperately wanted freedom.” WantDifferentWantedStarsMagicRocksCarDrugPureWhat You WantParksRestaurantsGovernorsRock StarJohnsonJordanMayors Author:Rick Ross
“I'm standing at a crossroads. I'm not entirely sure what the future holds ... I'm at a crossroads, but it's a little bit different than the crossroads I've been at before because I'm doing what I do because I love it, and doing what I do because it's pure passion.” LittlesDifferentPassionBitsPureLittle BitStandingCrossroads Author:Billy Ray Cyrus
“Every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to. Even as a Beatle, they'd say, 'Oh, double-track that.' I don't know how you do that, because when I'm in a fill I'm sort of this blackout, just this pure me coming out and I can't pure me the same, twice. So, that's that.” KnowsHas BeensI CanDifferentPlayAbleKnow HowPureTrackComing OutBecause I CanBlackoutsSyncopation Author:Ringo Starr
“At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.” WorldDifferentFeelingsNightGirlFightingDarkEmotionTreeCryPureCreaturesCatAgonyMaking LoveBack And Forth Book:The Virgin Suicides: A Novel Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
“I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.” BookDifferentSoundTechnologyHappenedInformationPurePaperMeant To BeWords On PaperBest Technology Author:Chip Kidd
“Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the African knowledge, but different for us, who are blond and blue-eyed from the north?.... There was another way, the way of freedom. There was the paradisal entry into pure, single beingwhich accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.” WayLoveDoeDifferentIndividualFreedomCreativeStrangeProudPureConnectionsBlueFinishedAcceptedObligationAwfulPermanentParadiseYieldSubmitAnother WayEntryYokeDissolutionForfeitCreative LifeSinglenessLeashesBlue Eyed Author:D. H. Lawrence
“We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought.” KnowsMenMayDifferentDreamBodyActionSpiritPurposeHoursPlansHabitPureIdealsDetermineNobleCherishLofty Author:Joshua Chamberlain
“The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.” WellsLooksMayArtDifferentRealPlayArtistTermSpaceBusinessKnownStageWallPureArt IsNotionAthleteAlsBullshitPercentagesGalleryMontanaConductingProfessional AthleteStage PlayPollock Author:Tom Peters
“There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which every single notion receives a separate and different name from each group, and in which important work has been triplicated or quadruplicated, while still other important work is delayed by the unavailability in one field of results that may have already become classical in the next field.” MayHas BeensStillsImportantDifferentNextNamesSidesResultsGroupsFieldsPureMathematicsNotionStatisticsEngineeringElectricalDelayedDifferent SidesImportant WorkDifferent NamesElectrical Engineering Author:Norbert Wiener
“It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.” WorldDifferentRealPureConnectedReal WorldNeverthelessMathematicianDifferent Worlds Author:Isadore Singer
“Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a pure child who has an inner glow none of the others in the book possess. They reject her because she is different, and they try in every possible manner to destroy her, because they are jealous. It is an extraordinary love story.” TryingChildrenBookDifferentStoriesNovelPureExtraordinaryLove StoryRejectsJealousHardyTessTess Of The D UrbervillesExtraordinary Love Author:Laetitia Casta
“We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of revealing some information to our main character. So we chose to represent it as these sort of beautiful little snow globes, which kind of, weirdly, that's the way we think of memories - at least, most of the folks that we talked to. You think of these memories as being very pure and absolute and unchanging. That's not actually real life.” IfsThinkingWayKindLittlesDifferentRealCharacterBeautifulFilmMemoriesInformationNeededPureAbsolutesFolksReal LifeSnowPlotDevicesDifferent KindsGlobesRevealingThink Of MeUnchangingMain Characters Author:Pete Docter
“I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.” WantDifferentMatterFactsWantedPureMathematicianUnclesMatter Of Fact Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“About the only question that we would say and this is a big one in our lives that we would say you don't just use pure reason to decide the answer to is anything that affects your happiness, because then gut and reason answer very different questions. So gut tells you "How do I feel about this right now?"” FeelsDifferentReasonUseBigsAnswersOur LivesRight NowPureGuts Author:Sheena Iyengar
“The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of degree, as no society is a pure partnership or domination system) has been fiercely resisted and countered by periodic regressions. So domination systems have rebuilt themselves in different forms - be they secular or religious, eastern or western, leftist or rightist.” Has BeensDifferentMatterFormSocialSidesReligiousMovementPureDegreesNewsWesternScalesPartnershipSecularEasternDominationBad NewsLeftistsRegression Author:Riane Eisler
“I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.” LooksArtDifferentPleasureWonderfulPaintingPure Author:Jack Nicholson
“But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.” PeopleSaidDifferentEndsInspirationSeemsAnimalPlansFailingPureJokesWindowConstantJewContraryEach DayFrustrationRoutineTidesDecayStemSomewhere ElseGrindAvailabilityImplying Book:A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic
“It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real evil. Good is far less convincing than evil, but it’s because their chemical structures are different. Like gold, good is never found in a pure state in nature: it therefore doesn’t seem impressive. It has the unfortunate tendency not to act; it prefers, passively, to be seen.” PersonsDifferentRealStatesSeemsEvilFoundPureGoldStructureTendenciesGood And EvilChemicalsUnfortunateConvincingImpressiveDealings Author:Amelie Nothomb
“There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.” PeopleThinkingDoeDifferentReasonEvilOpinionVirtueWorstPureCatSakeDeedsWickedJustificationMiceAdversariesDifferent OpinionsPure Evil Book:Wizard's First Rule Source: Wizard's First Rule