Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes
What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.
Quotes to Explore
-
Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
-
It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
-
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.
-
The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
-
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
-
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.
-
Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!
-
Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
-
My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
-
Comedy is basically self-deprecation.
-
'I shouldn't be surprised if it hailed a good deal tomorrow', Eeyore was saying. 'Blizzards and what-not. Being fine today doesn't mean anything. It has no sig - what's that word? Well, it has none of that. It's just a small piece of weather.'
-
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
-
I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.
-
Microeconomics is the study of how specific choices made by businesses, consumers and governments affect the markets for different goods and services. For example, a microeconomist might examine how price changes affect sales of apples relative to oranges.
-
The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.
-
What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.
