Logical Quotes · Page 10

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

— Henry Flynt

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

— William Butler Yeats

“If all of the people in Hollywood had plastic surgery and went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.”

— Michael Jackson

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical,…

— Leonard Nimoy

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

— James G. Frazer

Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

— Greg McKeown

I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in…

— Alan C. Greenberg

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with…

— Georg Simmel

Everyone's talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it's quite logical. In the 1990s, music was…

— Robyn

Remember, this thing is small. It's not like the wolfships. It'll ride over the waves, not crash through them. So we're safe…

— John Flanagan

I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes.…

— Quentin Dupieux

Brits, Scandinavians, Finns, Estonians consider themselves rational, logical, unencumbered by emotional arguments; we are businesslike, stubborn, and hard-working.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent,…

— Cees Nooteboom

A termination of one's life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness. . . .…

— Paul Dirac

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a…

— Elizabeth George

At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try…

— Charles Hard Townes

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a…

— Julia Glass

"No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First,…

— Guy Kawasaki

I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and…

— Ben Affleck

If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit…

— John Gierach

I think about the trends at the moment in the planet and how it looks for my grandchildren. I don't panic over…

— Robert Thurman

It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child -…

— James Dean

Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that…

— S. N. Goenka

It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth

— Denise Morrison

There is just no sensible, logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research.

— Arlen Specter

The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.

— Charlie Brooker

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

— Edward Sapir

For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.

— Hermann Weyl

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

— Dexter Fletcher

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

— Alain de Botton

I have my own logic. I don't listen to anyone unless it's logical to me and not many people understand and appreciate…

— Tejaswi Madivada

The fixation on preserving our faces is laughable but it also seems almost logical given societal pressure and scrutiny.

— Angela Scanlon

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?

— Thomas Carlyle

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

— Earl Sweatshirt

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

— George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

— Kevin Spacey

“Sometimes things aren't logical. Sometimes things don't follow timetables.”

— Carrie Jones

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

— Daniel Burnham

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

— Dorothy L. Sayers