#sterile

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#becomes #begins #between #death #emotion

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#assign #dare #function #imitating #nature

I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#come #danger #i #i think #made

The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff. ↗

— Jonathan Katz

#billboards #created #discordant #environment #jarring

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. ↗

— Vilfredo Pareto

#bursting #corrections #error #fruitful #full

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#corporate #death #guard #internationalist #learn

So many celebrity websites you go to are so sterile that you know they just pay somebody to do it and there's not even an ounce of them in it. ↗

— Cindy Margolis

#even #go #just #know #many

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#amazing thing #basically #been #behind #birth

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#climate #maximum #mutual #mutual respect #nor

And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers. ↗

— Lennart Nilsson

#enemy #hold #increase #light #lighting