No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening. — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever. — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to… — Julie James Copy Share Image
I believe there are certain things that cannot be bought -- loyalty, friendship, health, love and an American League pennant. — Edward Bennett Williams Copy Share Image
My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise. — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
As it turns out, that feeling of being lost or listless or never achieving your potential doesn't contain itself within any certain… — Hannah Hart Copy Share Image
While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
Happy, vibrant, successful people think and behave in certain ways. So do miserable and unfulfilled people. In other words, there are patterns… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
I'm not a massive fan of 3D. I've seen some good 3D, and I've seen quite a lot of bad 3D. I… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort… — Harry Bertoia Copy Share Image
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither… — John Knox Copy Share Image
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops… — Mary Norton Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm like toilet paper, toothpaste and certain amenities - I'm proven to be good. I've still got 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years left. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
I agree, and a lot of people even within my own party want to give certain rights to people on watch lists… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff." — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered. — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident. — Raphael Soyer Copy Share Image
When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it… — Etan Cohen Copy Share Image
I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time. — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
