George Herbert Mead Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
-
I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
-
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
-
Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
-
I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
-
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
-
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
-
For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
-
I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
-
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
-
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
-
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
-
When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
-
I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
-
Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
-
I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
-
I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
-
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
-
The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation and fulfilled my great-grandparents' dreams. Theirs was... a simpler time of contentment and patriotism.
-
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
-
People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time.
-
Man lives in a world of meaning.
