Amelia Barr Quotes

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Amelia Barr

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• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Time
  • Today
  • Wednesday

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Love
  • Crime
  • For Him

• There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Up
  • Best

• I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Start
  • Strange
  • Research

• In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Work
  • Never
  • Studio

• There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• 'Why not alter the habits of a lifetime and speak with candour?' asked Shimrod. 'Truth, after all, need not be only the tactic of last resort.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Why
  • Truth

• 'What is the work of a Master?' said a solemn-faced visitor. 'To teach people to laugh,' said the Master gravely.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Work

• Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.

  

  Tyson Chandler

• I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Book

• I think it's long overdue, and I believed that Doris Miller should have been honored a long time ago.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Time
  • Long

• Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • People
  • School
  • Family

• I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Music
  • Stress

• Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

  

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  • Vampire

• I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Up

• It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

  

  Epictetus

• You could do a hundred projects and still not have the fans that are there for Twilight.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Twilight

• I pray that we will treat each and every one of our Heavenly Father's children lovingly, tenderly, and individually, as He would have us treat them. I also pray that we will always be mindful of the power each one of us has to make a difference and to influence the world in which we live.

  

  W. Rolfe Kerr
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Aptitude
  • Constituted

• The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Great
  • God
  • Dreams

• The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Ability
  • Politicians
  • Scientists

• Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Supernatural
  • Scientists
  • Unnatural