Richard Scott Bakker Quotes
The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.Richard Scott Bakker
Quotes to Explore
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
Usain Bolt -
I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
Kaley Cuoco -
It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
Tatiana Maslany -
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
Frances Farmer -
It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
Eamon de Valera -
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
Cam Gigandet -
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine -
I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
Larry Hagman -
I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
Ed Koch -
In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
Otto Loewi -
Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
Sampha
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
Lake Bell -
Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.
Fernando Torres -
It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
Olga Korbut -
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Not to sound egotistic, but I've gotten kind of good at it. It's something that came naturally to me, but my rapping is rooted in my writing.
Rashard Bradshaw -
The fashion thing is something I do, and yes, it is definitely also becoming a part of myself and my personality. It also doesn't really feel like a job, either: it's a dream or a passion or something.
Raf Simons -
Reading equals hope times change.
Jacqueline Woodson -
The one word I hear when people have affairs is that they feel alive. They don't talk about the fact they're having sex. They feel like they are engaged with their life. They describe an experience that beats back the deadness inside, which isn't the fault of the marriage or the partner. It's often the deadness that they have allowed to creep in for years on their own. But by definition, it's a transgressive act. And transgression is a breaking of the rules. And it gives you a sense of ownership and freedom. And ownership and freedom gives you a feeling of aliveness. It's a chain.
Esther Perel -
The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.
Richard Scott Bakker