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I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
by Steven Pinker (Scientist, Canadian , born in 1954) keywords: artists, arts, believe, confusion, elite, endeavor, exalted, form, higher, human, humanities, intellectuals, kind, leads, themselves , think For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.
by John Podhoretz (Writer, American , born in 1961) keywords: account, admitted, am, confusion, ever, every, homosexual, know, lyrics, might, nor, perhaps, record, show, though, tune, which , written Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
by Katherine Anne Porter (Journalist, American , born in 1890) keywords: almost, artist, chaos, confusion, disparate, frame, give, human, irreconcilable, itself, kind, life, may, meaning, pure, put, seem, shape, some, take, them, these, things, together , work The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
by Friedrich Schleiermacher (Theologian, German , born in 1768) keywords: art, called, confusion, entirely, first, good, involved, mistake, pleasant, possession, pretensions, profound, properly, second, speaking, their , unfounded There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion.
by Tom Selleck (Actor, American , born in 1945) keywords: been, burt, confusion, could, did, had, mistaken, moustache, much, number, really, reynolds, star, time , world Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
by Tony Snow (Journalist, American , born in 1955) keywords: capture, confusion, experiences, express, fear, generally, good, great, higher, joy, longing, love, lust, melody, mere, moods, most, music, obvious, occupies, ought, plane, politics, powerfully, rage, share, through, triumph, writers, yearning , yet I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
by Baruch Spinoza (Philosopher , born in 1632) keywords: attribute, beautiful, beauty, called, confused, confusion, deformity, either, imagination, nature, only, order, our, relation, things, ugly, warn, well-ordered , would Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
by Edward Steichen (Photographer, American , born in 1879) keywords: beauty, confusion, created, earth, explaining, face, feelings, force, gamut, human, inherited, major, man, photography, records, skies, wealth , written My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
by Anne Stevenson (Poet , American) keywords: am, because, confusion, contrary, earlier, enjoys, laughing, melancholy, more, perhaps, person, poems, quite, sadder, than, them, today, unhappy, were , wrote Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
by James Thurber (Comedian, American , born in 1894) keywords: any, bound, confusion, kind, lead, minutes, sixty, thinking , unhappiness If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
by Lao Tzu (Philosopher) keywords: another, arise, cleverness, confusion, duty, faithful, fall, filial, flourish, great, knowledge, lies, love, morality, out, perishes, relatives, servants, states, way , will Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.
by Henry Villard (Journalist, American , born in 1835) keywords: along, battery, brigade, came, clock, confusion, disastrous, end, enough, federal, felt, flank, four, front, into, managed, now, offensive, rapidly, rear, rebels, right, spread, strike, strong, take, throw, towards, under, utter, which , whole Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
by Jack Welch (Businessman, American , born in 1935) keywords: change, company, confusion, even, into, means, part, plunging, strength, total, while , willingness It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.
by William H. Wharton (Politician, American , born in 1802) keywords: administration, been, concerned, confusion, demonstrable, equal, equally, far, governments, injustice, insecurity, state , texas In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
by Walt Whitman (Poet, American , born in 1819) keywords: confusion, each, happy, other, single, speaking, stay, together, uttering, without , word I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
by Jeanette Winterson (Novelist, British , born in 1959) keywords: caused, character, confusion, deal, did, fictional, great, invent, myself , wanted
