Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
Quotes to Explore
-
But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
-
I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
-
My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
-
I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
-
I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
-
It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
-
I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
-
I love creative people.
-
America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
-
The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
-
A man is as alive as he can communicate.
-
I love action movies.
-
To survive is to win.
-
Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
-
I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
-
I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
-
In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
-
Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
-
Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.
-
We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
-
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
-
Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
-
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.
-
The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
