Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

Carlos Castaneda

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

Carlos Castaneda

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

Carlos Castaneda

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

Carl Andre

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Agnes de Mille

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

Agnes Martin

Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.

Agnes Martin

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

Emile Cioran

To be modern is to tinker with the incurable.

Robert Morgan

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Margaret Deland

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

Henry Rollins

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

Marcel Proust

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Lord Byron

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

William James

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.