24th B Day Quotes & Sayings

It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science. — Samir Okasha

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality. — Lance Reddick

I'm going to keep asking until you say yes." "I — Abigail Roux

When I was 15, I had lucky underwear. When that failed, I had a lucky hairdo, then a lucky race number, even lucky race days. After 15 years, I've found the secret to success is hard work. — Margaret Groos

And the look on her face as she opened the door Was like an old joke told by a friend. It'd taken ten more years but she'd found her smile And I watched the corners start to bend. — Harry Chapin

The point is that if the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it. — Ernest Becker

A book is a carrier, and the ideas contained within its covers are an infection waiting to be spread. They breed in men. They adapt according to the host. Books alter men, and men, in their turn, alter worlds. — John Connolly

The thing you had had and loved and taken for granted caught up with you all at once and for no sensible reason suddenly cost more than you could afford. — Ann Brashares

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being. — Daniel Kahneman

I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. — Jamie Foxx

We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss. — Alexander Lowen

I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think. — Ray Kroc

I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story. — John McGahern

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. — Tehyi Hsieh

The impulse to explain is the Achilles' heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to expose their worlds to the sharp knife of intellection. — Tom Bissell

Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of. — David Wilcock