Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Above all, you ask if the God of Christians forgives those who do not believe and who do not seek faith. Given… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of… — David Hood Copy Share Image
All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I was educated in line with the basic premise: work work work. You are only a valuable human being if you work.… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I try to be sensitive, but the atmosphere I create is very supportive. One overriding premise of the series is that guilt… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Donald Trump runs the country like he ran "The Apprentice." The premise of "The Apprentice" is a crazy rich guy has his… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“Agnes could not count on the fingers of one hand the times she had entered the Blanchards' business premises. Usually she had… — Janet Gleeson Copy Share Image
My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The… — Maurice Allais Copy Share Image
Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money.… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The broader unquestioned premises upon which my own culture founded its view of the human condition, such as the one that Unhappiness… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
Anarchists believe that we can govern ourselves in the absence of coercive and centralized authority; the underlying premise about human nature (to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the masses is not always wise. You could put a lot of things to a vote-you could have put… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings… — Arthur M. Wellington Copy Share Image
There is a new survey out about the happiest professions. I think the whole premise is flawed. You're supposed to find true… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
That's the rational premise behind my spending hours of billable time adjusting my Facebook preferences. The real reason, of course, for all… — Jeffrey Zeldman Copy Share Image
The Never Trumpers, they have never been guided by or governed by the premise that Hillary Clinton needs to lose. If they… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I enjoyed living in New York City, I liked the premise of the show [Saturday Night Live], I liked working with a… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image