Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

I was making a hierarchy out of music, and it's ridiculous.

Walter Benjamin

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

Jose Saramago

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Murray Rothbard

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

Mary Douglas

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

Mary Douglas

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

Ely Culbertson

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

Julie Burchill

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

Audre Lorde

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

William Cowper

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Henry Rollins

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

Kay Redfield Jamison

One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

Margaret Thatcher

Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.

James M. Barrie

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

Frank Lampard

The title is still on the cards until it's off the cards

David Icke

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.

Cary Fukunaga

I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

Evgeni Plushenko

Now I have all the titles and I'm really very happy.

David Smith

I was interested in the nuts and bolts of its chemistry, the thermodynamics. I learned to blow glass in an artistic vacuum.

Roger Bart

I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because they were an easy A. I loved being in plays and musicals too, but you didn't really get credit for those.

Rose Rosetree

Gwen has a very complicated, artistic temperament. It's intense, but she's OK with it. She's learned to let it fuel her artistic life.

Joe Nichols

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.

Peter Gelb

What I'm not interested in is having directors here who are anti-story tellers, and that's how I would group a lot of directors who subject audiences in Europe to unpleasant artistic experiences.

Curtis Jones

What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics.

Mary Noone

I think we have a really strong artistic showing here in the valley. And I think everybody is wanting to reconnect with the open treasures (the land) we have left.

Gitesh Pandya

I think this shows a growing divide between the expensive Hollywood films, which make a lot of money, and the artistic lower budget films which are made more from quality.

Kim Weston

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.