Famous quotes containing the word insist:
“Capt. Gregg, if you insist on haunting me, you might at least be more agreeable about it.”
—Philip Dunne (1908–1992)
“All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity—their links with their dead and the unborn.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.”
—Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)