Ectoplasmator Quotes & Sayings

I would like to focus on the use of the word silly for a particular people's point of views. Everybody has what is called a plausibility structure; we all have sets of background beliefs through which we process and assess evidence. When you call something silly, you are merely saying, 'Relative to my plausibility structure that isn't within that structure.' That's merely a comment on your own psychology, there's nothing more to it so I don't find that very helpful," (Randal Rauser, Unbelieveable Feb. 1, 2014). — Randal Rauser

For example, when I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. — Brene Brown

Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate ... It's what he's done every day in state government. — Ted Cruz

Ser Barristan," she called, "I know what quality a king needs most." "Courage, Your Grace?" "Cheeks like iron," she teased. "All I do is sit. — George R R Martin

I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit. — Douglas R. Oberhelman

An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make. — Peter Beard

Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions. — Annie Besant

How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples. — Reif Larsen

If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me. — Tamora Pierce

We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries. — Arthur Lewis

Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden. — Orison Swett Marden