Charles Fort Quotes

One can't learn much and also be comfortable. One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable.

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• Racism is a physical experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Experience
  • Racism
  • Physical

• Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Life
  • Think
  • Violence

• Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Game
  • Free

• I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Together
  • Me

• Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Women
  • Energy
  • Small

• This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Country
  • Relationship

• The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Work
  • Party
  • Politics

• Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Bad
  • Positive
  • Try

• I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Problem
  • Responsibility

• Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Life
  • Work
  • Black

• As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.

  

  Valerie June
  • High
  • Try
  • Guitar

• I love driving in the city at night.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Night
  • City
  • Driving

• I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Career
  • Me
  • Like

• When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • You
  • Literature
  • Movies

• I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Men
  • Dad
  • Mom

• The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be- homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Mother
  • Wish

• I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
  • Family
  • She
  • Mad

• I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

  

  Christian Dior
  • Good

• There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me...

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • Reasons
  • Hated
  • Pop Culture

• I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Knows
  • Physics

• If God calls you, pick up the damn phone!

  

  Janice Fyffe
  • Up
  • God

• A woman living with her mother has limited freedom; a man living with his mother has limited freedom and limited respect. For most men, the vacuum (of no support system) is so devastating, they’d rather agree with their wife than express their feelings and risk emotional withdrawal.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Freedom

• One can't learn much and also be comfortable. One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable.

  

  Charles Fort