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

• I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God.

  

  Elijah
  • God
  • Choose
  • Dress

• Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

  

  Melissa Rosenberg
  • Television
  • Rooms

• As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Political
  • Science
  • Community

• Donald Trump's negative enough, I don't need to add to that.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Donald Trump's negative

• When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Real
  • You

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

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Supernatural
  • Scientists
  • Unnatural