Alfred Korzybski Quotes
"Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other wordsː "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.Alfred Korzybski
Quotes to Explore
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
J. J. Abrams -
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
Edmund White -
I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
Dan Colen -
I've got nothing very original to say myself.
A. N. Wilson -
I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
Kate Beckinsale -
I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
Fatima Siad
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
Ira Glass -
I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
Yoko Ono -
No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. Milne -
My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
Tamara Mellon -
I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
Kate Mosse -
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
Garrett Hardin -
They can say I have an opinion about something.
Dan Abrams -
I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
Flannery O'Connor -
It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
Laura Dern -
I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic.
Kate Winslet
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I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
Dan Savage -
It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.
Abraham Lincoln -
I like Ned Leeds. I love the character so much. He's a very new character in the MCU. I think he's a very fresh take on people in the superhero world. Some superheroes crack under pressure, and Ned Leeds, who is not a superhero, doesn't.
Jacob Batalon -
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.
Tamara Mellon -
"Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other wordsː "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.
Alfred Korzybski