Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruno Heller

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

Anton Chekhov

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

Edmund White

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

Nicolas Cage

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

David Mamet

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

Phyllis McGinley

It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

Paul Valery

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

Henry Flynt

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

John Cale

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

Conan O'Brien

When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

Michael Cunningham

Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?

Marianne Williamson

Faith isn't blind, it's visionary

Meriwether Lewis

As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.

Max Azria

I'm very visionary, very big picture.

Samuel Johnson

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

Art Alexakis

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

Anthony Storr

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

Bill Bryson

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

Bill Burton

There is a lightning quickness to the speed at which candidates can build and accidentally dismantle their own campaigns. If candidates don't figure out their place in the new digital world of politics, they will be destroyed by it.

Bill Burr

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

Bertrand Russell

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

Bertrand Russell

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence