James Geary Quotes
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
James Geary
Quotes to Explore
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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
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
Viktor Orban
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
Igor Stravinsky
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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
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
Zora Neale Hurston
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
Jack L. Chalker
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I have never gotten my nails done.
Yuan Yuan Tan
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I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Walter Cronkite
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Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.
Randy Alcorn
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When people go to Ladakh, they go to Leh; they don't go to everything in the middle.
Gautam Singhania
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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
Yehudi Menuhin
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Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,Still on their dinner turn-Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.
Joanna Baillie
