Epes Sargent Quotes

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.

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• I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Time
  • Done
  • Thought

• There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Man
  • Television
  • Cinema

• Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • World
  • Today
  • Problem

• Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lie
  • Liar
  • Too Much

• I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.

  

  Imelda May
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Nice

• Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • American
  • Funny

• I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Home

• Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Secret

• All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Gold
  • Nothing
  • Loser

• I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Money
  • Racism
  • Economics

• I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Books
  • Fiction

• The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Action
  • Enemy
  • Coincidence

• Win pretty, win ugly, just win.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Pretty
  • Win
  • Ugly

• I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Bad
  • Food

• And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fear
  • King
  • Fierce

• I try to keep my professional life and my actual kid social life separate.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • Life
  • Professional

• To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.

  

  Lodewijk Fluttert
  • Home
  • Listening

• I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • Great
  • Library

• I like to say that neurotypical social interaction is a second language. It’s not as if we can’t learn it. It’s just that it doesn’t necessarily come easily to us.

  

  Ari Ne'eman
  • Social
  • Interaction
  • Neurotypical

• In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Alone

• My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Father

• Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Aristotle
  • Human Understanding
  • Father Of Logic

• There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.

  

  Epes Sargent
  • Reason
  • Latin
  • Axiom