Northrop Frye Quotes
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.Northrop Frye
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
Kapil Sibal -
The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
Fatema Mernissi -
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
Dana Carvey -
Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
Daisy Ridley -
I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
Gardner Dozois -
As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
Barry Ritholtz
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. White -
I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
Vijender Singh -
I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.
Dale T. Mortensen -
I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
Tabitha Soren -
Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
Randeep Hooda
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
D. H. Lawrence -
The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
Kate Williams -
I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
Harper Lee -
I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.
Salma Hayek -
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, 'What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.'
Edmund Burke -
Teachers are very undervalued for what they do.
Garth Nix
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Πειθαρχία γάρ ἐστι τῆς εὐπραξίαςμήτηρ, γυνὴ σωτῆρος.
Aeschylus -
I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.
Elizabeth Olsen -
I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his face. I didn't say that out loud, of course. I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.
Chelsea Handler -
The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.
George Best -
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
Charlie Haden -
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.
Northrop Frye