Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

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• I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Playing
  • Tennis
  • Eat

• I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Child

• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Family
  • She
  • Fun

• I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Cute
  • Funky
  • Climates

• One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Escape

• I'm very humble.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Humble
  • Very

• When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Money
  • Home
  • Baseball

• I am not that big a method actor.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Actor
  • Method

• I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Life
  • Age
  • Early

• Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

  

  Little Richard
  • Soul
  • Universe
  • Taken

• I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Mother
  • Day
  • Queen

• I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contemporary but still be me. It was just a matter of getting it right.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Never
  • Afraid
  • Issue

• You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Forever
  • Stupid
  • Knows

• It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Impossible

• Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Grace
  • Supernatural

• Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Truths
  • British
  • Preacher

• I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • British press establishment

• Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Personality
  • Mood
  • Birth

• Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.

  

  Plutarch
  • Sacrifice
  • Philosopher
  • Plato

• Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Sin
  • Confusion
  • Objects