Practically Quotes
554 quotes by 480 authors
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The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that…
— Alison Gopnik
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The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,…
— Lysander Spooner
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Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music. A musician's responsibility…
— Gabor Szabo
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Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.
— Maria Montessori
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We must create a history of India in living terms. Up to the present that history, as written by the English, practically begins with Warren…
— Sister Nivedita
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A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance -- checks and doublechecks and so forth -- you could create…
— Charlie Munger
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Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.
— David Platt
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Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important…
— Chancellor Williams
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When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.
— Hollis Frampton
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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
— Cory Doctorow
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a…
— William Vickrey
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I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby…
— Skitch Henderson
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Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?
— Kit Williams
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts…
— Patrick MacGill
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It was only my second night in Africa, yet something had begun to grow inside me which I could not stop, as if my childhood…
— Kuki Gallmann
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
— Samuel Johnson
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Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were…
— Richard Foreman
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Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it…
— Samuel Alexander
Who Wrote These Practically Quotes
480 authors contributed a total of 554 Practically Quotes, led by these top contributors: