R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

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• We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Children
  • Free

• Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • You

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Wife
  • Safe
  • Germany

• I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Love
  • City
  • Architecture

• A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • Poetry
  • Place

• Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Help
  • Him
  • Allah

• For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.

  

  Washed Out
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Up
  • School
  • Team

• I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Me
  • Three
  • Bicycle

• Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • Earth
  • Fear

• I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Universe
  • Story
  • Over

• I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Family

• 'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • House
  • Doors
  • Cards

• Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Most
  • Scotland
  • Engaging

• Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. If you give up drinking, don't go moaning about it; go back on the bottle. Do. As. Thou. Wilt.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Giving
  • Drinking
  • Bottles

• The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • Up
  • Great
  • Communication

• When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Trying
  • Communication
  • Communicate

• Communication is the most important single activity of man.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Important
  • Communication
  • Activity

• In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when they set it up we would just have a two-party system. It just so happens that our electorate pushed towards the two-party system because it's a very good way to govern.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Up
  • Good
  • American

• That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Communication