Association Quotes - Page 6

The novel ceases to be looked at as a novel. Such is the overwhelming power of motion pictures. Gore Vidal pointed out that the movies are the only thing anybody's really interested in. The association with movies and movie money can, and certainly did in my case, occlude a novel as a novel.

There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by [Laszló] Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful school, but we [with Alix MacKenzie] didn't go to that school. We did have friends who went to that school and we would visit there often, and I'm sure it pushed me in my painting direction very strongly just by association.

Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.

If regional associations are created, they should work on the basis of WTO norms, on the WTO basis.

Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue.

Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words and images continually intermingle and exchange one for the other.

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

The basis of association and antagonism among countries has changed over time.

Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is.

If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

It was mainly a growing farm, although we did have chickens and a few animals, but I did help to some degree with that. I have to say that it was not my favorite association.I did what I was asked to do.

Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully.

Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.

One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.

I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.

We teach in our cultural history that the entire universe is a family. So our association with Nature is much deeper and of a very different kind.

The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.

The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

All around us, people were cool. By association, so were we.

The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face.