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
  • Family
  • School

• 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

• No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep. … Hitler is himself the nation. That incidentally is why Hitler always has to talk so loud, even in private conversation - because he is speaking with 78 million voices.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Why
  • Fate

• Evolution has not been proven, ... There are a growing number of scientists who are skeptical about Darwinism.

  

  Larry Taylor Canned Heat
  • Revolution
  • Scientists
  • Proven

• The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Reality
  • Build
  • Scientists

• The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Students
  • Research
  • Priority

• I'm such a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements... There was something that happened to me. It was easy to be wild and crazy, and just let go and attack people.

  

  Mena Suvari
  • People
  • Horror
  • Elements

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

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Supernatural
  • Scientists
  • Unnatural