Sub Quotes

154 quotes by 145 authors

What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and… — Steve Scott
The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years. — Joseph J. Romm
Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest… — David Foster Wallace
But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type… — David Foster Wallace
I can run sub-10 any time but I'm just not ready. — Asafa Powell
In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women,… — Melinda Gates
The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and… — Zelda Fitzgerald
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear.… — Richard Rorty
In every squadron there were, perhaps, four or five pilots who exuded confidence. They knew that they were going out to shoot. The rest knew… — Lynn Garrison
Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. .... The conclusion is drawn that… — Ernest Rutherford
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd… — Thomas Nagel
Defy the crowd. The crowd isnâ€™t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is… — Guy Kawasaki
Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real… — Alice Hoffman
Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality;… — Varg Vikernes
Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk… — Justin Sane
You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation. — Matt Chandler
If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than… — Ethan Zuckerman
The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog.… — Kathryn Flett
To be able to achieve the laudable goals (of preventing and treating HIV/AIDS), especially for us in sub-Saharan Africa, there is the need for us… — John Dramani Mahama

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