Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
Jacinda Barrett -
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
T. S. Kalyanaraman -
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
Laura Osnes -
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Zadie Smith -
Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
C. J. Mahaney
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It takes people a while to trust you.
Karl Malone -
We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
Lakshmi Pratury -
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
Quentin Tarantino -
My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
Parker Posey -
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Barbara Kingsolver -
In Wisconsin, style-wise, it was all about bundling up, maybe wearing a hat and forgetting about your hair.
J. J. Watt
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I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
Dana Carvey -
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
H. L. Mencken -
It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.
Mal Peet -
You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
Edie Brickell -
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
Quentin Crisp -
I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.
Samuel Johnson
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I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it.
Philip J. Kaplan -
I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.
Gabrielle Union -
When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.
Jami Attenberg -
The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.
Reed Hundt -
There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.
Kate Reardon -
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
Ludwig Wittgenstein