#pedestal

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#after #another #arrogance #centrality #common

I'm real, and that what you see is what you get with me. I want people to know that I'm just Julianne. I'm not somebody that needs to be put up on a pedestal. ↗

— Julianne Hough

#i #just #know #me #needs

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you. ↗

— Mark McGrath

#know #pedestal #place #praising #sky

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#distorts #earthly #false #gods #laughed

The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#kids #like #pedestal #put #you

People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#certain way #dress #life #like #long

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of the formation of a language, seeking the hidden reason of all its apparent caprices, we do not reach that end, for grammar is not literature… When we come to literature, we find that, though it conforms to the rules of grammar, it is yet a thing of joy; it is freedom itself. The beauty of a poem is bound by strict laws, yet it transcends them. The laws are its wings. They do not keep it weighed down. They carry it to freedom. Its form is in law, but its spirit is in beauty. Law is the first step toward freedom, and beauty is the complete liberation which stands on the pedestal of law. Beauty harmonizes in itself the limit and the beyond – the law and the liberty. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#caprice #first-step #freedom #grammar #hidden-reason

A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#i #i think #joy #lot #out

Lesson learned: Don’t ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It’s too easy for him to tip over and fall off. ↗

— Kate Madison

#guys #memoir #pedestal #dating

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so. ↗

— Althea Gibson

#just #life #live #make #normal