John Searle Quotes
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
John Searle
Quotes to Explore
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
Zahi Hawass
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There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
P. J. O'Rourke
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China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
Ma Jun
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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
Olivier Megaton
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For me he's just a hoax. It's empty. It's not interesting. It's dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of - is all the critics' darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it's a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie's got is absolutely unbelievable.
Ingmar Bergman
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Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
Edgar Degas
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When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
Clement Attlee
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'I want to know what it says,' he answered, looking steadily in her face. 'The sea Floy, what is it that it keeps on saying?'
Charles Dickens
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.
Aristotle
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I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.
Labrinth
LSD
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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
Eric Butterworth
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Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.
Bonnie Bassler
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Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
Eric Schmidt
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I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.
Carly Fiorina
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Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
John Searle