Quotes
Authors
Roger Scruton
"Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it." --
Source : Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.11, Oxford University Press
Roger Scruton
#Beauty Quotes
#Voice Quotes
#People Quotes
“Alec Baldwin is so funny.”
“The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.”
“I'm totally changed. I've been emancipated from all this Republican dogma. Whether it's being anti-immigration, being-anti gay, being militaristic and wanting to engage in all these military interventions across the planet. That's all absurd.”
“Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.”
“Once I saw Paris Hilton leaving a restaurant in Hollywood and the paparazzi cameras were all over her. It looked so unpleasant. It wasn't because she didn't look sensational - she was that perfect combination of fashionable and slutty - it was because the paparazzi guys were shouting these insanely rude and intrusive questions at her. Like, asking her who she was sleeping with and stuff. I was kind of interested in the answer, so I was glad they asked, but it was still gross.”
“When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to be a Giants fan.”
“The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.”
Source : Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr
“It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion.”
Source : Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer (2016). “When Worlds Collide”, p.97, Macmillan