(152 quotes found)
“There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.”
Camille Paglia
“The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.”
Francois Rabelais
“However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion”
Blaise Pascal
“History is a vast early warning system.”
Norman Cousins
“Here's to the wind blowing against this lighted houseand to the vast, windless spaces between the stars.”
William Collins
“He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses them. . . . He can take you to a bicycle race and make it raise your hair.”
Dorothy Parker
“Logging roads in Africa create a spider web in the forest. A vast network of roads now goes into previously remote and inaccessible rain-forest areas. That facilitates the movement of commercial hunters to transport meat.”
Erick Brownstein
“Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.”
Walter Benjamin
“Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.”
David Herbert Lawrence
“If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.”
Lloyd Jones
