Judith Viorst Quotes

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Judith Viorst

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• Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Military
  • Liberals

• The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Actor
  • Stage
  • Paper

• I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Live
  • Home
  • House

• The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Kids
  • Play
  • Mom

• I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Done
  • Movie

• When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's kind of like when I'm with my girlfriend.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Feeling
  • Kind
  • Girlfriend

• We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Child
  • Sick
  • Sibling

• Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Actor

• Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • World
  • Perception

• The benefit will be much less than the political costs.

  

  Amanullah Khan
  • Political
  • Benefit
  • Costs

• Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • True
  • Law
  • Cutting

• Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Quality
  • Ability
  • Excellence

• He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.

  

  William Cowper
  • Slavery
  • Guilty
  • Skins

• The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

  

  William Proxmire
  • Home
  • Poor
  • Ashamed

• I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Learning
  • Enjoy
  • Process

• If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Good
  • Thing
  • Little

• These things were made of hubris, because they always broke down, or worse, broke everything. But maybe Laurence had been right and these devices were what made us unique, as humans. We made machines, the way spiders made silk.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Things
  • Unique
  • Made

• The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Loneliness
  • Wanting

• Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been won in spite of the irrational beliefs of the Greek people; all in all, it was a triumph of reason in the face of unreason. Some knowledge of Greek superstitions is needed not only for a proper appreciation of that triumph but also for the justification of occasional failures, such as the many Platonic aberrations.

  

  George Sarton
  • Reason
  • Realizing
  • Appreciation

• Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

  

  Judith Viorst
  • Wood
  • Superstition
  • Irrational