David Ogden Stiers Quotes

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

David Ogden Stiers

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• These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Nature
  • Water

• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Early

• The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Society
  • Freeing
  • Releasing

• Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Cancer

• I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Society
  • Environmental
  • Finnish

• I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Up
  • Important
  • Nature

• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• We live in a technical society.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Live
  • Society
  • Technical

• Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • True
  • Nature
  • Understand

• The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Society
  • Ideas

• Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Game

• Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Nature
  • Fear
  • Best

• How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Moment
  • Romantic
  • Poetic

• The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Dark

• Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose.

  

  Neil Turok
  • Happy
  • Society
  • Purpose

• Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.

  

  Dave Obey
  • Job
  • Society

• Much as you would like, you are not going to change people who feel it's part of their religious commitment to 'save' you.

  

  Jeanne Phillips
  • People
  • Religious
  • Commitment

• On the windowpanes came rattling fistfuls of shot, and the snow whirled and sifted beneath ill-fitting doors, slid in the cracks of windowsills and searched in a frenzy for any refuge against the fury of the wind.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Wind
  • Snow

• Life-flow of my natal hour, I will not weary of thy power, Till in the changes of thy sound A chord's three parts distinct are found. I will faithful move with thee, God-ordered, self-fed energy, Nature in eternity.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • Nature
  • Society