Mark Akenside Quotes

Everyone contributes something different to the mind, body and spirit.

I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.

The inclinations of men differ according to their varied dispositions; and each one in his calling has his particular end in view

I have books I like very much, but I don't think there are any books that everyone should read. I prefer a world in which some people read this, and others read that.

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.

People really want different things depending on who they are.

Different things just strike people differently. And it's so subjective, too. Because what makes one person laugh won't make others laugh. I guess it's kind of checkerboarded.

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

I have worked with a lot of great directors but my favorites are all entirely different from one another. They don't go about it the same way.

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.

There are as many preferences as there are men.

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.

If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes. Therefore the sages never require the same ability from all creatures. . . concepts of right should be founded on what is suitable. The true saint leaves wisdom to the ants, takes a cue from the fishes, and leaves willfulness to the sheep.

I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.