Nelson Goodman Quotes
If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.
Nelson Goodman
Quotes to Explore
So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
Leon Uris
We need to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our schools, our roads, our basic science and research here in the United States.
Barack Obama
Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.
Baba Amte
It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.
Quentin S. Crisp
I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.
Rabindranath Tagore
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
E. B. White
No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
Phil Jackson
Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.
Yayoi Kusama
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.
Oscar Wilde
We do care about some more than others. It's the fame factor and who, at the time, is particularly in the news. If you've followed their lives, you're going to be more interested.
Bonnie Fuller
I saw school as a business and, once I had got what I needed out of it, I left.
Jonas Blue
People can't stay out of their cars. I do think we have a real problem staying out of our automobiles. We have a real dependency on them, and it may be for more than just transportation.
Steve Forbert
