Adam Ferguson Quotes

Theory consists in referring particular operations to the principles, or general laws, under which they are comprehended; or in referring particular effects to the causes from which they proceed.

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• I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Good
  • Funny
  • Myself

• There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Live
  • Real
  • Mistake

• A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Great
  • Death

• I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Car
  • Sports
  • Dreams

• I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Name
  • Wrong

• I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Doing

• Every single day I'm shocked.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Single
  • Day
  • Every

• It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • You
  • Line
  • Resume

• Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • Poetry
  • Morality

• In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Look

• There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Political
  • Science
  • Religious

• What I do like about Donald Trump is that he's not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he's nobody's puppet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Money
  • Like

• When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

  

  Irwin Corey
  • Sell
  • Your
  • IQ

• We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Black
  • Readers
  • Appealing

• I've been taught by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the country, and I've learnt that technique for weight training and cycling is very much more strength and less conditioning.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Country
  • Best
  • Training

• I don't have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Relax
  • Prove
  • I Can

• Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • House

• I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.But, after all, the only principle in Art is to copy what you see. Dealers in esthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. There is no recipe for improving nature.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Art
  • She
  • Nature

• If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • You
  • Me

• Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

  

  Cassius Jackson Keyser
  • Mind
  • Ignorance
  • Certainty

• I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to 'Talk Soup,' where I was writing and performing for TV.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Up
  • Writing

• Theory consists in referring particular operations to the principles, or general laws, under which they are comprehended; or in referring particular effects to the causes from which they proceed.

  

  Adam Ferguson