William C. Dement Quotes
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our livesWilliam C. Dement
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
Patrick Ness -
You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
Ian Mckellen -
I love the energy over here in the U.K., the hospitality is insane.
Flo Rida -
I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
Zach Gilford -
Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. Salinger -
DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
Ada Yonath
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I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
Lars Larsen -
I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.
Karl Schroeder -
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
J. B. Priestley -
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.
W. H. Auden -
Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
Livy -
The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam.
Joanna Lumley
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If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline.
Bill Kristol -
But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.
Mark Rylance -
You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.
Mary MacLane -
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
James Lovelock -
Everybody's constantly growing. In your twenties, you can learn a lot, and you can be very smart and clever and savvy. Especially these kids today. They seem like they have it all together. But let's talk to them again when they're 40 years old and see really who they are. Is it who they thought they were at 25?
Amber Valletta -
Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
Lech Walesa
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
Laila Ali -
Home is the nicest word there is.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.
Charles Dickens -
I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.
C. S. Lewis -
Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs
Art Wolfe -
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives
William C. Dement