Andrew Dickson White Quotes

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

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• There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Great
  • Never
  • Misunderstanding

• Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Society
  • Fall
  • Crime

• It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Beach

• I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Spiritual

• I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Girl

• Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Customer

• I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Forever

• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Win
  • Born
  • Plan

• Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Family
  • Said

• Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • U.S.
  • Within
  • Insults

• I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Money
  • Game

• If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Character

• And I thought well, if Tina Turner can go up there and she can give everything for 500 people, no matter how sick I am, I can make it happen too.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Done
  • Stones

• Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • People
  • Habits
  • Canadian

• I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Heart
  • Guest
  • Entrance

• I would've said yes before I saw Aaron Gordon do what he did. And Zach LaVine went nuts as well. I think Gordon should've won for what he did. But what LaVine does is amazing. I don't know where he gets that bounce and that glide but it's incredible. I hope both those guys compete it in next year. Over the last years or so, I'd say the three-point contest has been more entertaining than the dunk contest, but this was really special this year.

  

  Steve Kerr
  • Special
  • Lasts
  • Incredibles

• An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.

  

  Jonathan Taylor Thomas
  • Education
  • Possibilities
  • Guarantee

• People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.

  

  Susanna Moore
  • Trouble
  • Survive
  • Course

• Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Fool

• The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

  

  Andrew Dickson White
  • Development
  • Christianity
  • Sciences