Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes
What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.
Quotes to Explore
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
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If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.
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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.
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Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
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Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!
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Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.
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I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
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My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
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Comedy is basically self-deprecation.
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As a historian, I am struck by a certain consistency among otherwise independent witnesses in placing Mary Magdalene both at the cross and at the tomb on the third day. If this is not a historical datum but something that a Christian storyteller just made up and then passed along to others, how is it that this specific bit of information has found its way into accounts that otherwise did not make use of one another? Mary’s presence at the cross is found in Mark (and in Luke and Matthew, which used Mark) and also in John, which is independent of Mark. More significant still, all of our early Gospels—not just John and Mark (with Matthew and Luke as well) but also the Gospel of Peter, which appears to be independent of all of them—indicate that it was Mary Magdalene who discovered Jesus’ empty tomb. How did all of these independent accounts happen to name exactly the same person in this role? It seems hard to believe that this just happened by a way of a fluke of storytelling. It seems much more likely that, at least with the traditions involving the empty tomb, we are dealing with something actually rooted in history.
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Humanity's true purpose is not to become stronger physically, it's to become more intelligent-from armies, who increasingly fight with specialized units rather than regiments and tanks, to garage owners, who use a lot more than jacks to fix your engine. As intelligence prevails throughout humanity, maybe there'll be fewer wars and better cars.
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Amor é o que se aprende no limite,depois de se arquivar toda a ciênciaherdada, ouvida. Amor começa tarde.
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She had taken London by storm - which was to say, as with any good storm, some people stayed indoors when they saw her coming.
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Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.
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What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.
