Used Quotes - Page 39

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

What is the right time [to discuss theology]? Whenever we are free from the mire and noise without, and our commanding faculty is not confused by illusory, wandering images, leading us, as it were, to mix fine script with ugly scrawling, or sweet-smelling scent with slime. We need actually 'to be still' (Ps. 46:10) in order to know God, and when we receive the opportunity, 'to judge uprightly' (Ps. 75:2) in theology.

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

I am not used to doing naked shoots but when you trust the photographer and the crew, you know it won't be vulgar.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

I think it is natural that every country has to take care of its interests, but there are some interests that are common to all countries. There are some human interests, or we need also international cooperation. We've sometimes confused it with dictation.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

It is rather interesting how you get used to death.

Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.

Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

Grace cannot be confused with righteousness. Grace is receiving what we do not deserve; mercy is not receiving what we do deserve. Righteousness, on the other hand, includes what most of us would consider difficult matters, such as punishment, correction and judgment. It also includes what most of us would consider positive matters, such as the fruit of the Spirit.

That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

I just can't get used to life.

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well.

If you only ever heard "Valley Girl," or "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," or a song that has a comedic narrative, you would get some impression that that was novelty music, but that's the only stuff that ever got on the radio. You can make the argument that that's what has confused generations as to what his music's about.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.