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Henri Bergson Quotes

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

Henri Bergson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: October 18, 1859 - January 4, 1941

Topics

Freedom Spirit Matter Own Form Them

I'm a natural blonde, but my hair has been almost every color you can imagine. As an actor, I like to get into my character as much as I can, and often that starts with the color of my hair.

Jennifer Morrison

Character Hair Color Blonde You Get

The atmosphere is great for people - it allows us to survive - but it's a real headache for astronomers.

Andrea M. Ghez

Great People Survive Real Atmosphere

'The Glades' is a light cop procedural about a cop from Chicago who got shot in the bum by his captain and made a change down to Florida, so he's a bit of a fish out of water.

Matt Passmore

Change Light Water Fish Down Out

I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened.

Mary H.K. Choi

Great I Am Better Leaving Left Much

That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them.

Mike Bartlett

Moment Start Doing You Look Rather

Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.

Don Yaeger

Time Football Greatness Game Name

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Douglas Haig

War Waiting Victory Dangerous Desire

This making studies and then taking them home to use them is only half right. You get composition, but you lose freshness; you miss the subtle and, to the artist, the finer characteristics of the scene itself.

Winslow Homer

Home You Artist Lose Right Miss

For me, acting is doing.

Pierce Brosnan

Me Doing Acting

I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies.

Sydney Pollack

I Am Movies Hollywood Director Cult

I like when I tweet about Tony Hawk. A lot of times, people think it's true; like, I've tweeted about having lunch with him a lot, and people are like, 'Oh, how was he?' or, like, 'Do you have a pic?' I don't know how to explain it. He's right at the level where people could almost believe it, but it's also a really weird pairing.

Perfume Genius

People Lunch Believe Think Weird

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

Tobias Wolff

People Writing Literature Feelings