Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.
MARINA OSWALD The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the r...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down...
MARINA ABROMOVIC A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
MARINA TSVETAEVA I had difficult mother, difficult childhood like she had. She is Sagittarius like I am. I almost die...
MARINA ABROMOVIC When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.
MARINA SIRTIS Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?&...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year wit...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC Of course I dream to have this perfect man who does not want to change me. And I'm so not marria...
MARINA ABROMOVIC Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven pr...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow m...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, yo...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the de...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it&...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I want to dominate the man's world.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC Unconditional love with someone you've never met is a straightforward feeling that is so overwhe...
MARINA ABROMOVIC I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
MARINA WARNER You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance art...
MARINA ABROMOVIC There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.
MARINA ABROMOVIC I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman....
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other i...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...
MARINA TSVETAEVA In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the e...
MARINA ABROMOVIC In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the e...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I have the greatest respect for Aborigine people, to whom I owe everything. The time I spent with me...
MARINA ABROMOVIC I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the livin...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memo...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic,...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is re...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted mas...
MARINA FIORATO Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.

In the cradle a child is screaming.

An old ...
MARINA TSVETAEVA There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...
MARINA TSVETAEVA Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.
MARINA TSVETAEVA It is remarkable that a fist-gnawingly dire England performance still has the power to shock, when i...
MARINA HYDE You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire de...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the nigh...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division bet...
MARINA WARNER The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
MARINA WARNER Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.
MARINA AMOROSO This is a natural extension of location services we've seen serving the business market to track wor...
MARINA AMOROSO There's really not a great understanding right now about what appeals to parents and kids. It's a ma...
MARINA AMOROSO The carriers are realizing to get the last customers they need to offer more than just a mass approa...
MARINA AMOROSO These Are The Voyages...
MARINA SIRTIS When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing fairies.
MARINA GALLAGHER You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it...
MARINA LEWYCKA With you, I truly am fearless, Marcus. With you, I’m not even afraid to be weak.
MARINA SIMCOE I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I want to sleep with you, fall asleep and sleep. That magnificent folk word, how deep, how true, how...
MARINA TSVETAEVA You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fea...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and...
MARINA WARNER All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not thi...
MARINA ABROMOVIC First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to ex...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my Star Trek charac...
MARINA SIRTIS They should've done a two-hour, you know, like we did. Then I would've gotten double the money, that...
MARINA SIRTIS I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm e...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmes...
MARINA WARNER A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not...
MARINA WARNER I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same p...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC Самый необитаемый из всех островов - толпа.
MARINA DYACHENKO My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar ...
MARINA TSVETAEVA I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and s...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with w...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.
MARINA ABRAMOVIć The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I wasn't a 'Star Trek' fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show wh...
MARINA SIRTIS Do you wanna leave soon?
No, I want enough time to be in love with everything...
And I cry...
MARINA KEEGAN I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .
MARINA KEEGAN What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start ove...
MARINA KEEGAN The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out ...
MARINA WARNER Quinn had never stayed at a hotel that used real keys. Most had plastic keycards--like credit cards ...
MARINA COHEN We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There's this senti...
MARINA KEEGAN We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I wa...
MARINA KEEGAN I was raised to believe that all I could ever be was a criminal. It made me want to be anything but ...
MARINA SIMCOE I like to work with people. I enjoy my job. I really enjoy it.
MARINA ROMERO We're here to help the Spanish community because sometimes our people feel more comfortable being se...
MARINA ROMERO My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my p...
MARINA TSVETAEVA What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that...
MARINA TSVETAEVA We rely on people coming out and being patrons to help this site continue to thrive.
MARINA TORTORELLO It's something people don't see normally. To see people dressed up in that time period and using the...
MARINA TORTORELLO Living conditions were good in this area.
MARINA TORTORELLO We wanted to give people an idea of what it was like living in that time.
MARINA TORTORELLO Apparently I'm the 'eye-candy' of TNG, which at my age I find quite a compliment.
MARINA SIRTIS No amount of justice could bring them back or replace the emptiness I feel, but I'm glad he's off th...
MARINA DANIELS The lives that Gertrude has touched would fill this whole hospital. She'd give you her heart from he...
MARINA DANIELS She would call me every day on her way to work. Yesterday I was waiting for her to call and it never...
MARINA DANIELS She would go to McDonald's and give it out to homeless people.
MARINA DANIELS I would just like for him to go to court. I don't have any bitterness against him.
MARINA DANIELS It's really annoying when you have (people) butting in line when everyone's waiting for an hour and ...
MARINA BARTUREN There are still some perceptions that attendees would do nothing but play while they are here. It's ...
MARINA NICOLA We had the economy. We had the Iraqi war. We had SARS. Those things took a huge chunk out of the num...
MARINA NICOLA It makes sense to practice moving around gracefully in it.
MARINA LITTERSCHEIDT What I wish for him in my thoughts is that he would preserve his health, I think that's the most imp...
MARINA KHODORKOVSKY If … they allow to see him and bring him (food) only six times a year, then there is no sense to li...
MARINA KHODORKOVSKY Redondo is always, no matter what, out to have a good time. That's what surfing is supposed to be al...
MARINA RICHARDSON Every time there is a humanitarian catastrophe, you hear the same promise: There will be a seamless ...
MARINA OTTAWAY You need to convince the international community that there is a looming crisis before there are pic...
MARINA OTTAWAY What I expect to happen is that the US will be very cautious in pushing for elections as soon as pos...
MARINA OTTAWAY Much more common and insidious in the contemporary world is a situation where central authority has ...
MARINA OTTAWAY In Iraq, that's not what we find.
MARINA OTTAWAY One can date the beginning of a civil war only in retrospect. But when we see deliberate attacks on ...
MARINA OTTAWAY He's being as forceful as he can be, given the circumstances.
MARINA OTTAWAY I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.
MARINA KEEGAN I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than al...
OSWALD SPENGLER There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of mo...
OSWALD SPENGLER If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
OSWALD SPENGLER Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, ...
OSWALD MOSLEY Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are mar...
OSWALD MOSLEY There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep e...
OSWALD MOSLEY Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
OSWALD CHAMBERS When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get...
OSWALD CHAMBERS You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the insid...
OSWALD CHAMBERS When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
OSWALD CHAMBERS If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in t...
OSWALD CHAMBERS It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
OSWALD CHAMBERS The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
OSWALD CHAMBERS We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
OSWALD CHAMBERS I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I can...
OSWALD CHAMBERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of i...
ALICE OSWALD The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye ...
ALICE OSWALD The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the reade...
OSWALD SPENGLER It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, d...
OSWALD SPENGLER Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
OSWALD CHAMBERS The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
OSWALD CHAMBERS When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get o...
OSWALD CHAMBERS We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city ...
OSWALD SPENGLER In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collectin...
OSWALD SPENGLER Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
OSWALD CHAMBERS Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time...
OSWALD CHAMBERS I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal sta...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron...
OSWALD CHAMBERS We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise,...
OSWALD CHAMBERS The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The g...
OSWALD CHAMBERS If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well with...
OSWALD CHAMBERS We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
OSWALD CHAMBERS When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't.
OSWALD CHAMBERS A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this a...
OSWALD CHAMBERS It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s wor...
OSWALD CHAMBERS A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
OSWALD MOSLEY The resilience of Western economies to recent oil shocks has been remarkable.
ANDREW OSWALD Political feelings are much less independently chosen than people realize. Children mold their paren...
ANDREW OSWALD What you have in the bank, according to the data, does not matter all that much. What really matters...
ANDREW OSWALD We thought we'd see some income effects.
ANDREW OSWALD Recent research suggests that regularly seeing good friends in the local park will bring a greater b...
ANDREW OSWALD Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting wor...
ALICE OSWALD If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or co...
ALICE OSWALD One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable bl...
ALICE OSWALD A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the t...
ALICE OSWALD Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of...
ALICE OSWALD If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference betw...
ALICE OSWALD Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no m...
OSWALD CHAMBERS We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us,...
OSWALD CHAMBERS If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists...
OSWALD CHAMBERS The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who know...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry...
ALICE OSWALD It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making...
ALICE OSWALD At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a ...
ALICE OSWALD There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the v...
ALICE OSWALD The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
OSWALD SPENGLER Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
OSWALD SPENGLER This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to ...
OSWALD SPENGLER It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally ...
ALICE OSWALD A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates...
ALICE OSWALD There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about...
ALICE OSWALD If you are not right with God, you can never turn your mind anywhere but on yourself.
OSWALD CHAMBERS Newspapers are not made any longer by news or journalism. They are made by sheer weight of money exp...
OSWALD MOSLEY The Press will not be free to tell lies. That is not freedom for the people, but a tyranny over thei...
OSWALD MOSLEY The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain an...
OSWALD CHAMBERS We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - th...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
OSWALD CHAMBERS Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
OSWALD CHAMBERS If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaki...
OSWALD CHAMBERS The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us t...
OSWALD CHAMBERS I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it...
ALICE OSWALD Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldi...
ALICE OSWALD I talked to her about things like how to take notes. We weren't flirting, though. At the time, I did...
TOM OSWALD There have been some changes but mainly regarding the outside and aesthetics of the aquatic centre, ...
DENIS OSWALD When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by th...
OSWALD CHAMBERS God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" Th...
OSWALD CHAMBERS True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means s...
OSWALD CHAMBERS The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is n...
OSWALD CHAMBERS