Universal Quotes

Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are.

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

Obligations may be universal or particular.

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.

Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values.

Is the human race a universal constructor?

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).