James P. Hogan Quotes
Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.James P. Hogan
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
Narendra Modi -
I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
Ted Turner -
People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
P. J. Harvey -
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
Baltasar Kormakur -
I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
Rachel Cusk
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The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn't gone too far. She's still dressing in a way that people can relate to.
Kate Reardon -
I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
Irma S. Rombauer -
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracian -
I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
Gabriel Iglesias -
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
Patrick J. Kennedy -
But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
Walter Raleigh
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Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
Fernando Pessoa -
They were two and beautiful and wanted to be something else; love delayed itself to them in the tedium of the future, and regret of what would happen to be was already being the daughter of the love they hadn't had.
Fernando Pessoa -
It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.
Frances Bean Cobain -
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
Walter Scott -
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Logan Pearsall Smith -
The most beautiful smile is the one for someone who isn't there, who just popped on your mind.
Ahlam Mosteghanemi
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I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one.
Barack Obama -
You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.
William H. Gass -
Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis.
Cardinal Richelieu -
Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.
James P. Hogan