#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

I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#came #dull #first #here #i

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

— Charles Baudelaire

#assign #dare #function #imitating #nature

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#created #fruits #indeed #knowledge #may

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 passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. ↗

— Freda Adler

#another #controversies #era #find #knowledge

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

— Jonathan Katz

#billboards #created #discordant #environment #jarring

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. ↗

— Ed Koch

#life #lived #nothing #sterile #suburbs

Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#assembly-line #dejan-stojanovic #final #literature #literature-quotes

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

#brutal #cannot #culture #die #live