(115 quotes found)
“Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”
Al Capp
“But the thing uttered by the speaker I strain towards is still not quite the story of what is going on; it is more reflexive than that, because as a poet I am in fact straining towards a strain, seeking repose in the stability conferred by a musically satisfying order of sounds.”
Seamus Heaney
“And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.”
Bible
“In Tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question”
Niels Bohr
“How can a heart suffer your deepest thoughts and yet only speak the unmoving, inconsequential utterances of abject silence?”
Anne Austin
“Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail”
Clive James
“The nursery still lisps out in all they utter -/ Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.”
Lord Byron
“These figures are an utter disgrace.”
David Davis
“I certainly believe the Weavers were utterly innocent, were a threat to nobody, and if you can't believe crazy things on top of a mountain in Idaho, where can you believe crazy things?”
Jon Ronson
