Alison Gopnik Quotes

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

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• Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • People
  • Think
  • Escape

• People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Experience
  • Night

• I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Story
  • Write
  • Upbringing

• You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • You
  • Without

• In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Space

• If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

  

  Cale Yarborough
  • Lost
  • Completely
  • Racetrack

• I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Opportunity
  • Day

• If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Small

• Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Pain

• Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...

  

  Edmund White

• After a lifetime of living on hope because there is nothing but hope, one loses the taste for victory.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Hope
  • Victory

• Indeed, there is no evidence to suggest innate morality. It is therefore important to create the conditions under which the expansion of our moral communities may become more likely.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Important
  • May
  • Moral

• I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.

  

  Anthony Head
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Popular

• The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Soul

• But I must own that I am much in the Dark about Light. I am not satisfy'd with the doctrine that supposes particles of matter call'd light continually driven off from the Sun's Surface, with a Swiftness so prodigious!

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Sun

• Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Character
  • Success

• And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • World
  • Work

• People here cannot conceive of worlds where dæmons are a silent voice in the mind and no more. Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful?

  

  Philip Pullman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Nature

• For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • World
  • Play
  • Cool

• We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart.

  

  John Calvin
  • Heart
  • Satisfied
  • Knowledge Of God

• I was so lucky that I didn't have to audition. It's just such a grueling process, in itself.

  

  Moon Bloodgood
  • Process
  • Lucky
  • Auditions

• Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • World
  • Today
  • Improvement

• The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Improvement