Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.Alfred North Whitehead
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
Dana Brunetti -
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
Oliver Joseph Lodge -
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi -
Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
Nathan Parsons -
In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
Olga Kurylenko -
I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.
Natalie Dormer
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Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
Walter Dean Myers -
I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.'
Irvine Welsh -
If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.
Ferdinand Marcos -
On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.
Olga Kurylenko -
What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
Edith Wharton -
No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.
Manny Pacquiao
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Mehr Licht!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.
Linus Torvalds -
Basketball was every day of my life. Wake up with a ball - sometimes I'd sleep with it because someone told me that was better for you.
Andy Grammer -
I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself a spoken word poet.
Anne Waldman -
I'm supremely grateful and seriously pleased that readers enjoy my words.
Alison Tyler -
I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.
Chita Rivera
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I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
Benjamin F. Wade -
What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?
Richard Scott Bakker -
I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.
Cecil Balmond -
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I made so many recordings with junky mics and crappy mixing consoles, you have to use what your tools are and in some ways that's been inspirational.
Butch Vig Garbage -
In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.
Alfred North Whitehead