James Geary Quotes

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

James Geary

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• There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.

  

  Ian Wace
  • People
  • Money
  • Generation

• When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Look
  • Sexy
  • Elephant

• I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

  

  Raekwon
  • Problem
  • Successful
  • Cats

• A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Plan
  • Push

• Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Money
  • Democracy
  • Politics

• Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Art
  • Business
  • Attention

• People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Like
  • Special

• There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Football

• I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Moment

• It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Model
  • Personality
  • Say

• I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Never
  • See
  • Him

• I always take things step by step and match by match.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Always
  • Things
  • Step

• Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Flowers

• My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Favorite

• For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

  

  Rachel True
  • Me
  • Hair
  • Movies

• We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Women
  • Want
  • Years

• I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • World
  • Want
  • Class

• Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Great
  • Writing

• Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land?

  

  Wilhelm Grimm
  • Mirror
  • Land
  • Fairest

• I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Give
  • Him
  • Immigrants

• To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Create
  • Consciousness
  • Morality

• Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

  

  James Geary