Camille Paglia Quotes

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Camille Paglia

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1947

Topics

NatureBeautyGivingLimitAgainst

As an executive producer, I feel really lucky.

Jessica Williams

FeelLuckyProducerExecutiveI Feel

The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.

John Oates

ChristmasBeenGenreField

Got through it without fluffing, that's the main thing any actor can hope for.

John Leeson

HopeActorWithoutThroughGotMain

I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin.

Michael Connelly

NothingWritePuzzlesTooI Write

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

Mary Roach

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I never misrepresent my position - you've got to be strong enough to make the argument and marshal the case.

Louis Theroux

Be StrongStrongEnoughYouArgument

I'm weird: I like science and math but also like English as well.

Jazz Jennings

ScienceWeirdWellEnglishLike

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

Douglas Adams

DriveFindingBodyPriceYour Body

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

Chuck Close

LifeLookingYouLookDifference

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

William J. Clinton

EducationGoodGrowthOpportunity

Compared with the rest of the Royal Family, Charles is a thoroughly Renaissance man, moved by beauty, music, and art in a way that largely passes his parents, his siblings, and his sons by.

Penny Junor

FamilyBeautyMusicArtManParents

Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.

Pete Sampras

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