... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Public agency is emergent, and the ability of the public to literally put any bank or corporation out of business overnight is… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Paul from the New Testament, he has a great soliloquy about love, where he's basically saying, if I've figured out… — Moby Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie… — Hugh Walpole Copy Share Image
[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The right wing conservatives think it’s a decision that you can be cured with some treatment and religion.//Manmade rewiring of a predisposition//Oh… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. I've found that 20 percent… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Look. Every partisan in every party has to learn one thing: Sometimes your people are wrong. To paraphrase an old retort, saying… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that,… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
“To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry.… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
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