Erving Goffman Quotes
Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.
Erving Goffman
Quotes to Explore
Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
Malcolm Gladwell
There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.
Ted Naifeh
I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
Gavin Rossdale
Bush
'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?
Finn Jones
Hip-hop was started on groups.
Quavo
Migos
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.
Yuan T. Lee
I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
Jack Kevorkian
I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.
Dana Hill
Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
Aldous Huxley
Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes.
Daniel Tammet
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
Daniel Libeskind
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
John Stossel
