Allan Sandage Quotes

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

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• I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Play
  • Easy
  • Smiling

• I am a passionate civil libertarian.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Passionate
  • Libertarian
  • Civil

• Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Trade

• This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pain

• For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Space

• I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • You
  • Win

• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Everyone
  • System

• I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Want
  • Because
  • Patient

• I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Things
  • Name
  • Straight

• I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Time
  • Style
  • Same

• I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Friends
  • Audience
  • Group

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Pretty
  • Show
  • Ever

• Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • You
  • Humor
  • Got

• All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • God
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• 'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Women
  • Intuition

• Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.

  

  George Sterling
  • Nations
  • Ghost
  • Banners

• A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • People
  • Children
  • Moving

• It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole guinea pig. But it is a whole tree and a whole guinea pig that have survived and evolved, and we must make the attempt.

  

  Gardner Murphy
  • Science
  • Evolution
  • Accepted

• I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Because

• I think, my first season on 'SNL,' I watched every single episode of 'Step by Step,' and a few years prior to that, I watched every single episode of 'Family Matters.'

  

  Kyle Mooney
  • Family
  • Single

• Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

  

  Allan Sandage
  • Science
  • Human
  • Institution