Susan Blackmore (Susan Jane Blackmore) Quotes

Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.

Susan Blackmore

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• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Kids
  • Clothes
  • Grow

• I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Film
  • Budget

• I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, through the love I have for all humanity, a love I try to express through my music.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Music
  • Humanity
  • Honor

• Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Job
  • Weird

• When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Like
  • First

• I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Doing

• I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Love
  • Know

• To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Truth
  • Beauty
  • Creative

• For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;At whose approach ghosts, wandering here and there,Troop home to churchyards.

  

  Aurora
  • Home
  • Night
  • Clouds

• I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.

  

  Crystal Chappell
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Character

• I have a lot of respect for my fellow young actors. It takes a lot to push forward after being told no a million times, and that was what we all have to go through. So those who push deserve respect.

  

  Colton Haynes
  • Respect

• Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

  

  Christopher Marlowe

• I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Work
  • Done
  • Couple

• I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

  

  Pierre Loti
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Wish

• I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

  

  Joe Manganiello
  • Book
  • Mad

• There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth's tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.

  

  Max Heindel
  • Earth
  • Moon

• That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.

  

  Bode Miller
  • World
  • Great
  • Feeling

• It was as if he were watching a tall stranger with a wand pointing to the embarrassed phantom that was himself, and ruthlessly exposing its frailties! And yet that pitiless showman was himself too - himself as he wanted to be, cheerful, brave, resourceful, indomitable.

  

  John Buchan
  • Brave

• In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!

  

  John Badham
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Black

• Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.

  

  Michel Faber
  • Thinking
  • Challenges
  • Intelligent

• Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Girl
  • Smart
  • Bookish

• Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.

  

  Susan Blackmore
  • Progress
  • Consciousness
  • Excitement