Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old.
Gary Sinise
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover
Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
Magnus Larsson
Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
Karen Armstrong
Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. 'You cannot catch three fish with two hands,' the little man often said.
Tad Williams
Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.
Octavia E. Butler
Unveil’d, unmask’d ! not so, not so !Ah ! thine are closer wornThan those which, in light mockery,One evening thou hast borne.The mask and veil which thou dost wearAre of thyself a part;No mask can ever hide thy faceAs that conceals thy heart.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
Erin McKean
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
Cameron Crowe
My husband perpetually makes fun of me about my creams and my jars and potions and lotions, but its simpler than anyone makes it: clean, tone, keep yourself moisturized. The rest is internal: Protect yourself from the sun and drink water.
Brooke Shields
In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.
Marianne Williamson
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
Alfred North Whitehead
