Tied Quotes - Page 18

• The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

  Paul Klee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.192, Univ of California Press

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• Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.

  Daniel Dennett

  Confused, Lasts, Tongue

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• Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as by a flash of lightning; they burst unexpected, frightening, and joyous out of the darkness. Never were they so strongly tied together and never so sharply divided.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Darkness, Great Day, Together

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• The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.

  Steve Jobs

  Song, Phones, Fiction

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• Without a body and without time, I wasn't disturbed by my ego or by the function or dysfunction of my brain and memory. And during my pure perception within the source, I had no opinion either. I didn't even have an 'I.' An opinion is tied to the ego, and the ego to the body. Without any of this, there was only objective consciousness.

  Pim van Lommel

  Inspirational, Memories, Dysfunction

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• The Psblurtex is an 18-inch long anaconda that hides in the gentlemen's outfitting departments of Amazonian stores and is often bought by mistake since its colors are those of the London Reform Club. Once tied around its victim's neck, it strangles him gently and then claims the insurance before running off to Germany where it lives in hiding.

  Mike Harding

  Running, Mistake, Humorous

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• ... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them. Holiday shoppers have been whipped into a frenzy by months of holiday advertisements, and they will buy anything small enough to stuff into a shopping bag. If your children object to being tied, threaten to take them to see Santa Claus; that ought to shut them up.

  Dave Barry

  Children, Humorous, Holiday

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• Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say.

  Matt Groening

  Cat, Moon, Thinking

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• I do think that I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff.

  Diplo

  Thinking, Creating, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if I knew there was any risk, I'd be foolish to do it. I'd love to stand outside the Earth and look at it. Extraordinary feeling that, something that we've been tied to for millions of years, and a handful of people have looked at it, to be able to do that would be stunning.

  Colin Baker

  Years, Space, People

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

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• Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Pain, Lying, Compassion

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• All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

  Paul Beatty

  Art, Stuff, Ancient

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• If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.

  Deborah Feldman

  Dream, Mind, Guarantees

  Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Grieving, Hands

  'I had a dove and the sweet dove died' (written 1818)

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• In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.

  Dania Ramirez

  Past, Together, Messengers

  Source: collider.com

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• I get the most starstruck around musicians. I get tongue-tied and don't know what to say. I'm so jealous of them. When you make a movie, you're constructing something - it's a little bit like making an album. But after musicians make an album, they get to perform it live and experience it in front of a crowd.

  Judd Apatow

  Jealous, Musician, Albums

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Father, Party

  "Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy". Book by Rüdiger Safranski, trans. by Ewald Osers, 1987.

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• The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.

  Peter Drucker

  Home, Fate, Employment

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.336, Routledge

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• Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Fashion, Past, Class

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• A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Women, Struggle, Passion

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.92, Penguin

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• Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hurt, Fun, Passion

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• In a new poll of Democratic voters, presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee came in with zero percent support. Or in other words: We're all tied with presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Zero, Support, Presidential

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• Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.

  Kevin Spacey

  Jobs, Acting, Convince

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

  Kevin Spacey

  Ideas, Acting, Thousand

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Men, Hands

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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