J. J. C. Smart Quotes
“It is important to distinguish 'pure chance' from 'chance' or 'accident.' Things may happen by chance or accident in a purely deterministic universe...Now there is perhaps a sense of 'could not have done otherwise' in which whether or not a person could or could not have done otherwise depends on whether or not the universe is deterministic.”
J. J. C. Smart
Quotes to Explore
I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
Fleur East
Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
Vicki Delany
The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it.
Aaron Funk
I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.
Walter Dean Myers
It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!
Rachel Tucker
Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.
R. J. Cutler
Staying fit is all about trying to find enjoyment in something physical, because that's the only way you're gonna get results.
Kaley Cuoco
There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.
Tate Taylor
I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.
Eddie Marsan
I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.
Jack Vance
I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
Daniel Berrigan
