"As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening."

-- Jayne Anne Phillips

#Sight Quotes #Silence Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She should stop calling names long enough to ask whether personal sensationalism, hyperbole, and bad arguments are really what the cause of sexual equality now needs.”

Source : "Pornography: An Exchange". Ronald Dworkin's reply to "Women and Pornography" by Catherine A. MacKinnon, New York Review of Books, Volume 41, No. 5, www.nybooks.com. March 3, 1994.
“Islam developed in opposition to orthodox Christianity from the very start, and it considers itself superior to Christianity. So far, it has only been tolerant in places where it is in the minority.”
“Stretch your mind and fly.”
“To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.”
“I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.”

Source : Interview with Charlie Snyder, students.depaul.edu. February 17, 2005.
“Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm weirdly flexible, so when I dance, I dance like a 17-year-old girl.”

Source : "Exclusive Q&A: 'Ceremony' Star Michael Angarano insists tights are masculine" by Breanne L. Heldman, www.mtv.com. April 07, 2011.
“I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been guided by their sense of beauty not only in developing new theories but even in judging the validity of physical theories once they are developed. Simplicity is part of what I mean by beauty, but it is a simplicity of ideas, not simplicity of a mechanical sort that can be measured by counting equations or symbols.”

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