Bernard Williams Quotes

The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.

Bernard Williams

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• I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Food
  • Cook
  • Contend

• I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Team
  • Best

• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Birthday

• I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Me
  • Finding
  • Not Knowing

• The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Why
  • Home
  • Relationship

• Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Responsibility

• I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Filmmaking

• Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried all the way home. I have seen them get promoted and relegated. I played for them for eight years. I even got a group of like-minded fans and friends to stump up a few quid to salvage the club when they went into liquidation.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Up
  • Home
  • Friends

• My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Party
  • Day
  • Birthday

• Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Man
  • Goal
  • Improving

• I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Liberty

• Kandinsky, Wassily – painter, printmaker and author – the first painter to base painting on purely pictorial means of expression and abandon objects in his pictures.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Painting
  • Author

• I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

  

  Derek Bailey
  • People

• Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People

• I'd much rather hang out in a cafe. That's where things are really happening.

  

  Joe Sacco

• I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Children
  • Reading

• I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Power
  • Movie
  • Success

• Pinterest has been helpful to my business. Making inspiration boards is really key to developing products. When I was getting married, I literally cut out tear sheets and put my own boards together. Had I known about Pinterest, I would have been able to do it so much more easily.

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • Business
  • Inspiration
  • Boards

• I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.

  

  Rasmus Lerdorf
  • Language
  • Programming
  • Logical Step

• Every sexy joke of long ago, every flirtation, is being recalled by some women and revised and re-evaluated as sexual harassment. Frivolous accusations reduce, if not eliminate, not only communication between men and women but any kind of playfulness and banter... Where has the laughter gone?

  

  Maryanne Trump Barry
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.

  

  Bernard Williams