Quotes 2601 till 2620 of 5709.
-
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.
-
Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
-
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...
Pensees (1669) -
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
-
Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.
-
T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
-
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?
-
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
-
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
-
Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
-
Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.
-
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word ''satiety.''
-
Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.
-
Thank God my hair is always the same. And I get dressed very quickly. I am not one of those people who spend three hours getting dressed. I never understood that. What do you do for the two and a half hours after the half hour it takes you to get ready?
-
That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
-
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
bij Boswell -
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
-
That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has gone.
-
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
All half-there famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 131)
