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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings. — Agnes Denes

Granny hesitated. "Agnes who calls herself Perditax?"
"Perdita X," said Nanny. She at least respected anyone's right to recreate themselves. — Terry Pratchett

It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does. — Agnes Moorehead

Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's ... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-"
"Go for the throat — Terry Pratchett

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. — Agnes Repplier

My mum is a big collector of art. — Agnes Obel

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle. — Agnes Varda

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do. — Agnes Repplier

The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument. — Agnes Strickland

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat. — Agnes Repplier

Dance in the body you have. — Agnes De Mille

My work is about helping humanity. — Agnes Denes

When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best. — Agnes Obel

Megan looked into Agnes's frightened face. Agnes had been so sharp just a few years back - funny and cutting and wonderfully ribald. — Harlan Coben

Some people meet each other again only when I'm there! — Agnes Varda

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be. — Agnes De Mille

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable. — Agnes Repplier

Agnes Smedley also knows what the century knows: that we become what is done to us. — Vivian Gornick

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything. — Agnes Repplier

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things. — Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ... — Agnes Repplier

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. — Agnes Repplier

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. — Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Cinema is my home. I think I've always lived in it. — Agnes Varda

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent. — Agnes Smedley

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote. — Agnes Varda

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young. — Agnes Varda

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans. — Agnes Varda

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not. — Agnes Martin

People always understand everything in retrospect. — Agnes Denes

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment. — Agnes Repplier

This is Margaret Brown; boy did she put on a show!" Agnes — Sharon Karaa

I'm not into having a pedigree dog. — Agnes Obel

I never considered myself a performance artist. — Agnes Denes

As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one. — Agnes Sanford

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film. — Agnes Varda

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. — Agnes Repplier

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us. — Agnes Repplier

I see you are working your usual magic this evening." "Not magic, Madame. Just me." Agnes — Jessie Burton

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see. — Agnes Repplier

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes. — Agnes Sligh Turnbull

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down. — Agnes Repplier

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. — Agnes Repplier

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing. — Agnes Repplier

What business had I to think of one that never thought of me? — Anne Bronte

I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day. — Agnes Denes

The easiest thing humans can do is fall in love. The hardest thing is learning what it takes to stay in love. — Agnes H. Hagadus

Economics and ethics have little in common. — Agnes Repplier

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy. — Agnes Varda

The tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat. — Agnes Repplier

The value of art is in the observer. — Agnes Martin

I paint with my back to the world — Agnes Martin

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. — Agnes Repplier

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt. — Agnes Repplier

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. — Agnes Repplier

What a fool you must be, said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self. — Anne Bronte

We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that's good, because it makes us grow. — Agnes Denes

I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you. — Agnes Obel

He grinned. It was the sort of grin that Agnes supposed was called infectious but, then, so was measles. — Terry Pratchett

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person. — Agnes Denes

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. — Agnes Repplier

I never got a chance to be a teenager. — Agnes Bruckner

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. — Agnes Martin

It is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing. — Agnes Repplier

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book! — Agnes Varda

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint. — Agnes Martin

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. — Agnes Martin

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy. — Agnes Varda

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself. — Agnes Obel

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture. — Agnes Repplier

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from. — Agnes Obel

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities. — Agnes Repplier

When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?" — Agnes Denes

I hate female men. — Agnes Smedley

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom. — Agnes Varda

Thomas had never heard such arrogance from her. She was either a really good actress or had started going crazy. Gained a split personality or two. — James Dashner

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian. — Agnes Smedley

Most wonderful things are unconscious. — Agnes Denes

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think. — Agnes Repplier

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist. — Agnes Varda

I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind. — Agnes Varda

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. — Agnes Repplier

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family. — Agnes Varda

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices. — Agnes Obel

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler. — Agnes Repplier

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. — Agnes De Mille

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles. — Agnes Varda

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations. — Agnes Repplier

I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother. — Agnes Varda

Beauty is in the mind, not the eye. — Agnes Martin

People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism. — Agnes Repplier

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments. — Agnes Obel

Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process. — Agnes Repplier

It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction. — Agnes Obel

I don't have a daily routine at all. — Agnes Obel

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained. — Agnes Meyer Driscoll

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle. — Agnes Repplier

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. — Agnes Repplier

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor. — Agnes Repplier