(128 quotes found)
“The sound shivers through the walls, through the table, through the window frame, and into my finger. These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Write till your ink be dry, and with your tearsMoist it again, and frame some feeling lineThat may discover such integrity.”
William Shakespeare
“The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.”
Humphrey Davy
“Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
William Blake
“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough”
Denise Shekerjian
“If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.”
Conor Oberst
“We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.”
William J. Brennan Jr.
“How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.”
Daniel Webster
“I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different”
Chris Klein
