Arthur Eddington Quotes
We should not argue with the blind man who maintained that sight was an illusion to which some abnormal people were subject. Therefore in speaking of religious experience I do not attempt to prove the existence of religious experience...
Quotes to Explore
-
Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
-
I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
-
From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
-
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
-
I smoke, isn't that terrible?
-
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
-
I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
-
In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
-
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
-
I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
-
I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
-
I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
-
I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
-
I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
-
I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
-
Proust is a huge author for me.
-
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
-
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
-
I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.
-
I'm always late to bed - usually after midnight - but then I sleep for around ten hours.
-
As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric and often message-centric.
-
Without advances, medicine regresses and reverts to witchcraft.
-
We should not argue with the blind man who maintained that sight was an illusion to which some abnormal people were subject. Therefore in speaking of religious experience I do not attempt to prove the existence of religious experience...
