Theory Quotes
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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
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I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.
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It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
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Maybe life was just a series of phases—one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I’d be going through the same phase as the eighteen-year-old lifeguards. Not that I really believed in my mom’s phase theory. It didn’t sound like an explanation—it sounded like an excuse. I don’t think my mom got the whole guy thing. I didn’t get the guy thing either. And I was a guy.
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We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what pictures are doing, understanding them, doesn't seem necessarily to give us power over them.
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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
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Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.
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Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.
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Look at music like gaming. You monetize the game to all the people who are most engaged. I wanted to bring that theory and thinking to music.
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Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.
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Carl Schmitt in theory is one thing; confined to a few conservatives on the right and a somewhat greater number of envious postmodernists on the left, Schmitt’s ideas have not reached the informed reading public. Schmitt’s books are destined to be confined to the political theory sem inar room for some time to come.
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The true test of a brilliant theory is what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.
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I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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A theory is a battlefield in your head.
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Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
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Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.
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There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time ... On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
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It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
