![The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-term-americanization-invokes-the-transformation-of-the-landscape-into-unnat.jpg)
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passion rage shame torment
Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief. Virgil Virgil
passion hands choices
I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time. No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right. I am totally committed to my music and my fans. Barry Manilow
passion voice answers
In love, there's sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say: sentiment=love of the intellect; I can answer: passion=the love of the body. Berthe Morisot
passion affliction christ
Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ C. S. Lewis
passion omnipotence giving
And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
passion oddities hip-hop
What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that. Carrie Brownstein
passion light perfect
I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions Carrie Fisher
passion hands survival
My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts (as well as unable to take such a course of action) if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. On the other hand, if such a traditional god does not exist, our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival. In either case, the enterprise of knowledge is consistent with both science and religion, and is essential for the welfare of the human species. Carl Sagan
passion surfing lifestyle
Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it’s my passion, my love and it’s a part of me, Bethany Hamilton
night passing red shirts teams
Our passing was to red shirts all night long. We'll regroup, like young teams do.
nightclubs people york
People misconstrue when I say I was a dancer. I was not classically trained. I was a street dancer, and I got to do what I did in the nightclubs of New York City. Michael K. Williams
night supposed sushi
Sushi was gone, ... Somehow, she just got out the night before we were supposed to leave. She was just gone." ()
night blue dragons
The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
night alive fades
Night, when words fade and things come alive.
night men self
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
night ice shopping
I should probably confess that ice cream is my favorite food, and I eat it every night. When I go grocery shopping, I try to buy a new flavor, rather than reverting back to a favorite flavor. I'm on a mission to taste every flavor of ice cream out there! Becca Fitzpatrick
night reality afterlife
And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that. Barry McGuire
night play people
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. B. B. King
quality
There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. Beck
quality century despise
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves. Barry Lopez
quality whatever
We now know, he didn't have anything to do with the device. He didn't have anything to do with the attack. So what does that say about the quality of whatever the polygrapher was doing?.
quality safe kind
Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love. Bill Crawford
quality acting way
Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
quality clubs passports
When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports. Arsene Wenger
quality ran russians skating totally
I think they just ran out of steam. I think they have the same quality of skating that the Russians do, and that it's totally comparable, but they just made some mistakes.
quality
When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It's always been high quality stuff coming out of there. Bill Burr
quality water
That would have been a water quality nightmare.