Gateways Quotes - Page 6

• As a younger person you can come in through many, many gateways. It's like some huge Mandela. You can enter into this and get refreshed.

  Anne Waldman

  Persons, Huge

  "Interview with Anne Waldman: On All Kinds of Roads". Interview with Kurt Jacobsen, logosjournal.com. 2011.

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• Shook is the musical universe I created. I come from a classical and jazz background and my father is a jazz pianist, so my world bears largely the marks of this influence. As a sort of gateway, I started composing my own music on the computer at the age of 13. Before Shook, I had not yet discovered the kind of music I wanted to dedicate myself to, so I did a little of everything.

  Shook

  Father, Musical, Age

  Source: www.atickettosomewhere.com

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• Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

  Frederick Douglass

  Foundation, Baltimore, Prosperity

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.68, Frederick Douglass

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• The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.

  Henry Miller

  Piano, Romance, Bars

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• The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.

  Michael Marmot

  Impact, People, Brain

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• Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational.

  Gayle Greene

  Sleep, Irrational, Visitation

  Gayle Greene (2009). “Insomniac”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Death, Believe

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.76, Vintage

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• Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future.

  Allen W. Wood

  Form, Higher, Humans

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Phones, Should, Humans

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• Text is the gateway drug to real time marketing.

  Jay Baer

  Real, Drug, Marketing

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• All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their own message and feel a part of the art.

  Sanford Biggers

  Art, Messages, Feels

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• Delta's plan to upgrade JFK facilities will improve our customers' travel experience and make it more efficient and enjoyable to travel through one of the world's premier international gateways. Our customers should make no mistake that Delta is committed to New York and that this summer's expansion at JFK is an important step in offering enhanced service to customers in most every direction we serve from New York City.

  Jim Whitehurst

  Summer, New York, Mistake

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• If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.

  George Pendle

  Prayer, Airports, Other Worlds

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I really believe in the power of comics as an educational thing, even ones as silly as mine, because they're a gateway to the actual thing. They're like an easy entrance.

  Kate Beaton

  Educational, Believe, Silly

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

  Drew Barrymore

  Journey, Choices, Supposed To Be

  "Why Drew Barrymore Won't Let Her Daughter Pose for Playboy". www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2014.

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• Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Practice, Drawing, Perspective

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.344, Delphi Classics

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• Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

  Edward de Bono

  Education, Teaching, Math

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• As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Long, Spiritualism, Mysticism

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• While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Impact, Europe, Asia

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.

  Peter Greenaway

  Attitude, Ambition, Character

  "Watching Water". Catalogue of the Exhibition in Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, 1993.

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• If you go to a network and say, "I wanna do prison stories about black women and Latino women and old women," you're not gonna make a sale. But, if you've got this blonde girl going to prison, you can get in there, and then you can tell all the stories. I just thought it was a terrific gateway drug into all the things I wanted to get into.

  Jenji Kohan

  Girl, Drug, Black

  Source: collider.com

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• We're ready for a real black President - someone like Jay-Z. Obama's fine, just not all black. He's our gateway Negro.

  Christopher Titus

  Real, Black, President

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Systematic yoga and vipassana opens the "Dasham Duar" the mystical tenth spiritual gateway located at the top of the skull.

  Amit Ray

  Spiritual, Yoga, Skulls

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• ...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.

  Joseph Pearce

  Mean, Reality, Objective Truth

  Joseph Pearce (2012). “Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning of the Hobbit”, p.27, TAN Books

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• As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits of the ideas that these people pursued or developed or created and I'd be really excited. Then I'll start to read it and I think, "Wait a minute, this is a rabbit hole. This isn't a gateway or a ticket to anything except itself."

  Will Oldham

  Kids, Thinking, Ideas

  "Will Oldham’s Fourth Dimension". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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