Owen Wister Quotes

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

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• The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Good
  • Country
  • Game

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Success

• The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Different
  • Funny
  • Goal

• You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • You
  • Without

• As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Wish

• On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Special
  • Wrong
  • Roots

• I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Feel
  • Equality
  • Feminist

• I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Mother
  • Play

• Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Too Much
  • A Good Thing

• I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • People
  • Family
  • Money

• Probable that I am now better than most people and as good as I ever shall be at this game, and can therefore get to know anyone I wish, provided I am not physically repellent. And perhaps this is why personal relationships no longer seem to me a serious branch of study.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Revolution

• Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Nature
  • Desire

• There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Fool

• Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as in this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • God
  • Dark
  • Smoking

• I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

  

  Courtney Love

• Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Time
  • Space
  • Water

• I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.

  

  Elizabeth Marie Pope
  • I Think
  • Souls
  • Wondering

• The recruit was Sam McCain; in one of our lunch sessions I recalled Sarah O’Connell describing him as more mouth than brain. Unsurprisingly, he’d been in sales most of his life.

  

  John Scalzi
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Sales

• Martin Luther King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • King

• In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Remember

• Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.

  

  Alain Badiou
  • Age
  • Small
  • Dying

• Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

  

  Owen Wister
  • Sweet
  • Plato
  • Bottles