Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless. — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization. — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture. — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon. — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering. — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon. — Bob Gaudio Copy Share Image
The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a number of conditions, the most important… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand… — James Agate Copy Share Image
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
[CIA manipulating] has its roots in internal Pakistani affairs. It's a horrible development and phenomenon which goes back to radical Islamisation under… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived,… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this… — Aaron Karo Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself,… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has… — Joseph Rusling Meeker Copy Share Image
Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
One of my pleasantest memories as a kid growing up in New Orleans was how a bunch of us kids, playing, would… — Danny Barker Copy Share Image
Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image