Arthur Eddington Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it.
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The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.
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We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.
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The mind has an outlook which transcends the natural law by which it functions.
