Susan Blackmore (Susan Jane Blackmore) Quotes

Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.

Susan Blackmore

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• Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Job

• My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Learn
  • Goal
  • Impossible

• Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Long
  • Science
  • Change

• I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • World
  • War
  • Poetry

• I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • Night
  • Die

• The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Important
  • Better
  • Craft

• Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Just
  • Mistaken
  • Egotism

• I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • English
  • Literature
  • Stories

• I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Women
  • Always
  • Inspired

• I was neitherLiving nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Silence

• 'They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the Left, and we're not going to take it anymore.' 5

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Church

• Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Alone
  • Decision
  • Victory

• In Ted's world, we want the death penalty to be imposed at the scene of the crime.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Death

• Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

  

  Edward Young
  • Sun
  • Wishes

• Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Rain

• Pete Townshend is one of my greatest influences. More than any other guitarist, he taught me how to play rhythm guitar and demonstrated its importance, particularly in a three-piece band.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Band

• Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part of the Reaper family, and she also is able to get along with people more outside of their circle as well.

  

  Ellen Muth
  • People
  • Family
  • She

• The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Good
  • Future
  • Giving

• We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• There's something bizarrely funny about a guy who doesn't realise he's, in essence, a dog chasing his own tail.

  

  Brad Anderson
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Dog

• The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past for some sort of pattern ... to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • People
  • Past
  • Lies

• Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.

  

  Susan Blackmore
  • Science
  • Past
  • Materialism