“My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked people, I would get approval, and it made my arms itch with glee. I got addicted to it. It became this source of power in a totally powerless life.” PeopleIfsMadeAgeSawsTaughtSourceArmsDadMy DadApprovalSwearShockedPowerlessGleeToddler Author:Roseanne Barr
“The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.” FirstsFatherBeliefReligiousDoubtSawsSourceHolyRiversFunctionLakesReligious BeliefVictoriaExpeditionsNile Author:John Hanning Speke
“The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose performance when sober was admired even by the Spaniards. Already it was true, as it was to be for centuries, that many saw and despised the drunken sailor ashore, but few knew and admired him at his work afloat.” SawsCenturySourceWeaknessPerformancesConstantComplaintsSoberImpossibilityEnglishmenSailorDespisedSpaniardsInfantryman Author:Nicholas Rodger
“I do not think anyone who ever saw Lyndon Johnson give a speech would call him charismatic, even though he was one of the most effective presidents in U.S. history. Same with Lincoln. Charisma is only one source of power, and probably not a very important one, at that.” ThinkingGivingImportantPresidentSawsSourceSpeechJohnsonCharismaCharismatic Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“It was a great challenge to reconstruct Gypsy Rose Lee life, and my interviews with her sister [June Havoc] proved invaluable. It's not often that writers have access to living primary source material; this was the only person who experienced life on the vaudeville circuit with Gypsy during the 1920s, and who saw her perform at Minsky's Burlesque in the 1930s. She knew things that no one else could ever possibly know.” KnowsPersonsChallengesSawsMaterialsSourceRoseAccessPrimariesInterviewsJuneGypsyCircuits1930sInvaluableHavocVaudevilleBurlesquePrimary Source Author:Karen Abbott
“When I did "Seven Easy Pieces," I actually re-performed the performances of other artists. It was such difficult work because I had to really go through the documentation, look through the sources, to ask the witnesses who saw it.” LooksArtistAsksEasyDifficultSawsPiecesSourcePerformancesSevenWitnessDocumentationDifficult Work Author:Marina Abramovic
“When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that guy. They don't give me a sense of what I felt like when I first saw that original source material. They give me a sense of the world that I'm trying to create. And we all just have to deal with that.” WorldGivingTryingFirstsLooksGuyFeltDealsSawsPaintingMaterialsSourceMetsGive MeOriginalsThat Guy Author:Kehinde Wiley
“America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there including very developed societies such as the Incas, the Aztecs, and the Mayans. But then came the European vision that saw the conquest as a source of advanced growth away from medieval Europe. The new revolutionary bourgeois trend formed a new perspective on what was democracy that they saw as an improvement to the democracy of ancient Greece.” PeopleNeedsWholeAmericaGrowthVisionDemocracySawsGroupsSourcePerspectiveEuropeIncludingAncientImprovementRevolutionaryTrendsConquestGreeceMedievalBourgeoisNew PerspectiveAncient GreeceMayansMedieval EuropeIncas Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he saw. But what was of more value, he felt and suffered with her. In years that were yet to come, he relived this memory in song, in the most beautiful song this world has known. For the understanding of the soul's defencelessness, of the conflict between the two poles, is not the source of the greatest song. The source of the greatest song is sympathy.” WorldYearsFirstsHumansTwoSoulBeautifulValuesSongFeltUnderstandingMemoriesKnownSawsThis WorldSourceConflictFirst TimeHuman SoulLabyrinthGreatest Song Author:Halldór Laxness