Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

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• My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Picture
  • Favorite

• I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Places

• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Remorse

• If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Football
  • Laugh

• People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Succeed
  • Possible

• The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Important
  • Me
  • Learn

• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Information
  • Computers

• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Search

• I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Understand
  • Roots

• I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Life
  • Husband
  • Politics

• Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • People
  • Work
  • Death

• I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Kind
  • Ideas
  • Planned

• I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Career
  • Wish
  • New

• I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Guy
  • Amazing
  • Travel

• Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Die

• She committed suicide...'Why?''She often told me, she was frightened of getting old.'

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Old
  • Suicide
  • Frightened

• 'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'

  

  Vin Scully
  • Good
  • May

• After a good, successful torture, she was as happy as I ever saw her. I guess everyone needed a hobby.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Good
  • She
  • Happy

• Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

  

  Martin O'Malley

• I think every film is somehow a political film. You show a perspective and a world that has logic, and that logic is inserted into a political environment, and it means something. Yes, why not?

  

  Pablo Larrain
  • World
  • Why
  • Political

• In short what I like to say is that the Big Bang says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged. It really has no bang in the Big Bang. It is a bangless theory, despite it's name.

  

  Alan Guth
  • Why

• Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
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