Pure Quotes - Page 35

• A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.

  Garrison Keillor

  Flames, Class, People

  Garrison Keillor (1994). “The Book of Guys: Stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Dust, Burning

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 38

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• What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?

  Ray Bradbury

  Soul, Church, Fireworks

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Illustrated Man”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Believe, Science

  1985 Other People's Trades,'News from the Sky' (translated by Raymond Rosenthal,1989).

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• The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Men, Quality, Charity

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1823). “The School for Scandal: A Comedy”, p.128

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• The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Civilization, Viruses, Information

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• In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.

  Ruth Benedict

  Race, People, Community

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Philosophy, Imagination

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Simple, Prejudice, Conviction

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Running, People, Risk

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• Love has its roots in sex, but its foliage and flowers are in the pure light of spirit.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Love, Sex, Flower

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• It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps the crested tide: what day of the month I do not know, which day of the week I am not sure, far less what hour of the night.

  James Agee

  Summer, Sleep, Night

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Stories, Oral Tradition, Don't Change

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• In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

  Lytton Strachey

  Triumph, Peculiar, Literature

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.77, Delphi Classics

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• The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

  Louise Erdrich

  Ignorance, Sky, Size

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.37, Odyssey Editions

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• Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

  P. T. Barnum

  Pursuit

  P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Law, World, Physics

  "Memorabilia Mathematica". Book by Robert Edouard Moritz, 1914.

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• I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

  Adam Brody

  Stuff I Like, Soul, Wish

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

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• Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.

  Julianna Baggott

  Wall, Wings, Office

  "Q&A with Pure Author Julianna Baggott". Interview with Melissa Wiley, geekdad.com. April 4, 2012.

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• The international community can't trust such a government. If the government of Iran wants the international community to believe in what it says, it should try to bring true, pure democracy into the country. The political solution to the energy issue or the nuclear case is democracy in Iran.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, Believe, Issues

  Interview with Reese Erlich, www.motherjones.com. April 7, 2007.

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• Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Disappointment, Philosophy

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.216, Penguin

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• Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.

  Andre Breton

  Real, Independent, Writing

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• I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sports, Business, Mad

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• The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, May, Pleasure

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• Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather with crumbliness. In general, stone is formed in two ways only (a) through the hardening of clay, and (b) by the congelation [of waters].

  Avicenna

  Science, Rocks, Two

  Avicenna, Alfred (of Sareshel.), Eric John Holmyard (1927). “Avicennae De Congelatione Et Conglutinatione Lapidum”, AMS Press

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