Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes

To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.

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• I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Clothes
  • Obsessed

• Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Story
  • Result
  • Recruiting

• I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Home
  • Play
  • Present

• It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Important
  • Think
  • Me

• There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Good
  • Music
  • Small

• We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

  

  Quintilian
  • Reading
  • Deep
  • Minds

• I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Person
  • More
  • Antisocial

• I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Time
  • Live
  • Place

• Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Something
  • Will
  • Fail

• Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Boy
  • Look
  • Tough

• I want to become more famous, even more famous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Want
  • Famous
  • More

• Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Life
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • True
  • Emotional
  • Stories

• I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Want
  • First
  • Secrets

• They stood and listened, arms around each other for comfort, as the sound washed over them. It reverberated in the marrow of their bones, sung high and sweet, heartbreakingly mournful, quick as a jig, slow as the saddest air. Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.

  

  Charles de Lint
  • High
  • Air
  • Sweet

• And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

  

  Little Richard
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Like

• You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Rock Star

• I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Life
  • Wanted
  • Made

• Be consistent and live what you believe

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Believe
  • Consistent

• You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.

  

  Midge Ure Ultravox
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Play

• The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.

  

  Michael Schultz
  • Inspired
  • Expression
  • Donald Trump

• Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Great
  • Media
  • Opportunities

• My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Father
  • Universe
  • Ship

• To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Expression