Impersonality Quotes

My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,'

Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the 'extended order' of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.

Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?

Assets are cold.

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

I don't like the sterility of the casting office.

In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.

We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. '