Personal Quotes - page 9

At the edge of life you feel that you are no longer master of the life within you, that subjectivity is an illusion, and that uncontrollable forces are seething inside you, evolving with no relation to a personal center or a definite, individual rhythm. (Emil Cioran)
All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty – psychic or physical. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years. View quote
Steve Jobs
Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identity and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views. View quote
Robert Graves
No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. View quote
Edward Hopper
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world... The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm. View quote
Edward Hopper
The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices. View quote
Anthony Kiedis
A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography. (William Saroyan)
This show is our own personal beliefs. View quote
Jon Stewart
And though I am a committed Christian, I believe that everyone has the right to their own religion - be you Hindu, Jewish, or Muslim, I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior. View quote
Stephen Colbert
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word... View quote
Eva Hesse
The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Anarchists generally make use of the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the collective force of the community to this end. View quote
Errico Malatesta
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. View quote
Alice Walker
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. View quote
Anaïs Nin
This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life. View quote
Kathleen Turner
British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified. View quote
André Maurois
Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it. (Willa Cather)
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is. View quote
Gloria Steinem
I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style. View quote
Nicole Richie
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for. View quote
Laurie Anderson