Without Quotes

"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen"

"You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!"

George Herman, Journalist

"There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless"

Clive Bell, Critic

"No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man"

Bernard Barton, Poet

"And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it"

Brian Lumley, Writer

"To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic"

Walter Kaufmann, Philosopher

"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination"

Jalal Talabani, Politician

"Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"I can't imagine working without and audience"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached"

Kate Chopin, Author

"You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines"

Robert Wise, Producer

"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine"

Rita Dove, Poet

"Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely"

Rita Dove, Poet

"We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment"

Paul Haggis, Director

"Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished"

Anne Seward

"Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain"

Tina Louise, Actress

"I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician"

Mo Udall, Politician

"I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass"

Joe Murray, Artist

"Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country"

Daniel Ortega, Statesman

"How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me"

William Gaddis, Novelist

"Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books"

G. I. Gurdjieff, Educator

"Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt"

Roscoe Conkling, Politician

"Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood"

Chiaki Kuriyama, Actress

"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others"

Philip Levine, Poet

"When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it"

Alva Noto, Artist

"I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy"

Henry Wade, Lawyer

"People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment"

Jeff Bingaman, Politician

"It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that"

Jason Isaacs, Actor

"I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways"

Roger Daltrey, Musician

"It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

"There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

"Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me"

Thomas Kretschmann, Actor

"I experienced a lot, and achieved nearly everything I wanted. I can enjoy that today. Go to bed at nine in the evening, because my child wakes up around seven, without having the feeling that I missed or are missing something"

Thomas Kretschmann, Actor

"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants"

Harry Browne, Writer

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