To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
What I like to do is to give my real name in Starbucks but be really hostile each time, as if they're… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and… — W. C. Fields 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
For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and… — Ilana Mercer 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
To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show.… — Jonathan M. Goldstein 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
For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's… — Tom Peters 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
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
The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own. — Daniel Kahneman 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
My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd… — Vladimir Bartol Copy Share Image
The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
I've tried to write about Heathrow before and been escorted off the premises. — Alain de Botton 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 came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We took a fair bit of liberty with the story, but the basic premise of the film ["Selling Isobel" ] - a… — Rudolf Buitendach Copy Share Image
I really need to push myself and try my hardest every time, because I come from the premise that I'm not very… — Steve Lillywhite Copy Share Image
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
