James Geary Quotes

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

James Geary

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Country
  • Radio

• Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Control
  • Gun

• 'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Voice
  • Started
  • Positivity

• Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Work
  • Live
  • Wish

• I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Good
  • Think
  • Guy

• I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • World
  • Hate
  • Enjoy

• The point of the future is that anything can happen.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Future
  • Point
  • Happen

• Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Long
  • Money
  • May

• My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • World
  • Different
  • Connection

• When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Man
  • Me
  • Glamorous

• No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Me
  • Books
  • Certainly

• I have never gotten my nails done.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Done
  • Never
  • Nails

• When people go to Ladakh, they go to Leh; they don't go to everything in the middle.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • People
  • Everything
  • Go

• The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Human
  • Poet
  • Tiger

• I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Children
  • Baby
  • Dog

• When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Money
  • Law

• What could I do! Facts are such horrid things!

  

  Jane Austen

• Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.

  

  Abel Hermant
  • Spiritual
  • Maturity
  • Heroism

• Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.

  

  Andrew Mellon
  • People
  • Society
  • Estate

• A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

  

  Simeon Strunsky
  • Hungry
  • Table
  • Altar

• We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

  

  Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott AC/DC
  • Music
  • Wall
  • Collapse

• Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

  

  James Geary