Alice Weaver Flaherty Quotes

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

Alice Weaver Flaherty

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• I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Winter
  • Focused
  • Classic

• The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Like
  • Little
  • Gymnast

• People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

  

  Omar Epps
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• 'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Pretty
  • Forever
  • Now

• I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Professional
  • First
  • Him

• The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Enemy

• I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Never
  • Roots

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Speech

• When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Star
  • Thought
  • First

• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Body

• Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Day

• The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think, 'Oh my God, now I'm screwed.' Or you're not going to think, 'The umpire's going to give him calls because he's just told him he's an idiot or the pits of the world.'

  

  John McEnroe
  • World
  • God
  • Guy

• I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you were there. It's like church without God, or something. It's about feeling, hope and catharsis and things that are nurturing.

  

  Wesley Schultz The Lumineers
  • Music
  • God
  • Hope

• I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

  

  Billy Sherwood Yes
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character. I surrender the book to her.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • She
  • Character
  • Book

• It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

  

  Alice Weaver Flaherty
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Thoughts