There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
Jeff always says, "In the cinema, everybody goes to sci-fi. Those are the biggest movies. But, in television, nobody wants to touch… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
I am a fierce supporter of domestic-partnership and civil-union laws. I am not a supporter of gay marriage as it has been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
I have my views and obviously my music has connotations that lean toward what I believe, but I've learned through other artists'… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial,… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres,… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I just feel like the people who are discouraged about religion, it's [really] the connotation of people that go to church. People… — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
Studies have shown that the terms girl and lady have pejorative connotations: They conjure images of someone weaker and lazier; someone more… — Pat Heim Copy Share Image
The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
We were very - we were a working family, and my father had this very simple philosophy, simple working class approach. If… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I always tell people that my creativity lies in the belly of the beast and that's exactly what it is. A lot… — Jlin Copy Share Image
Faites de beaux rêves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams."… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums.… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It… — Chrissie Wellington Copy Share Image
Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile. — Mark Hamill Copy Share Image
You always have to try to move forward with a positive connotation in the future. — Miesha Tate Copy Share Image
I'm a survivor. But I'm also victim, too. Surviving has the connotation that you've been through it, you lived through it and… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Your name is the strongest positive and negative connotation in any language it either lights me up or leaves me aching for… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image