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Gabriel Marcel Quotes

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: December 7, 1889 - October 8, 1973

Topics

Home Wisdom Man Contemplation Them

The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.

Process Guitar Aesthetic You Try

I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.

Life World My Life Old First Real

Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And since his first days in office, President Obama has worked to strike the proper balance between the security the American people deserve and the openness our democratic society expects.

John O. Brennan

Balance Government People Society

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

Eyes Time Book Picture I Can Lights

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

Simple Writing Enjoy Want Right Get

So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer.

People Writing Never Get Writer

I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country, and for this, I am eternally grateful.

Love Freedom Great Grateful I Am

The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

Science Ride Fun Think Problem Want

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Music Truth Me Philosophy Find Here

When I'm making a film, I don't want my producer to be on the sets. So when I'm producing a film, I don't want to be on the sets!

Want Producer Film Making Sets

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

Peter Blair Henry

Strength Change Good Wisdom Living

I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum. I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater.

Art Road Unexpected Artist Museum

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