B. F. Skinner Quotes
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
Karen Mills -
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp -
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
T. Boone Pickens -
I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
Laura Wade
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
Kate Winslet -
As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
Feist -
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
Imelda Marcos -
The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
Sally Mann -
It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
Jack Zipes -
I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
Salli Richardson
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
Hannah Simone -
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
R. Lee Ermey -
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. Mencken -
I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
Rachel Kushner -
My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
Dan Jenkins -
The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.
Pamela Druckerman
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I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.
Meg Rosoff -
If you really believe that death leads to eternal bliss, then why are you wearing a seatbelt?
Doug Stanhope -
If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner