Elegir En Quotes & Sayings

You see, a laurel needs to grow. I can't do much about that. But I can keep the rain off a few musicians heads, can't I?" A sly smile wound it's way onto his face. "So God will tend the laurels and keep them wet. And I will tend the players and keep them dry. And wiser minds than mine will decide when to bring the two together." -Count Threpe — Patrick Rothfuss

I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest. — David Tennant

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. It ends like this: Poo-tee-weet? — Kurt Vonnegut

Inspirational and will challenge readers to get involved in the lives of others to make a difference. Thank you for sharing your wonderful insight and encouragement. — Mary Fallin

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any. — Desi Arnaz

A young reader finding this book today, or the day after tomorrow, is going to have to imagine first a past, and then a future that belongs to that past. — Ray Bradbury

System 1 continuously generates suggestions for System 2: impressions, intuitions, intentions, and feelings. If endorsed by System 2, impressions and intuitions turn into beliefs, and impulses turn into voluntary actions. When all goes smoothly, which is most of the time, System 2 adopts the suggestions of System 1 with little or no modification. — Daniel Kahneman

What really has expanded is not so much a circle of empathy as a circle of rights - a commitment that other living things, no matter how distant or dissimilar, be safe from harm and exploitation. Empathy has surely been historically important in setting off epiphanies of concern for members of overlooked groups. But the epiphanies are not enough. For empathy to matter, it must goad changes in policies and norms that determine how the people in those groups are treated. At these critical moments, a newfound sensitivity to the human costs of a practice may tip the decisions of elites and the conventional wisdom of the masses. But as we shall see in the section on reason, abstract moral argumentation is also necessary to overcome the built-in strictures on empathy. The ultimate goal should be policies and norms that become second nature — Steven Pinker

I was being measured against the expectation that any feminist had to be unattractive in a conventional sense - and then described in contrast to that stereotype. The subtext was: If you could get a man, why would you need equal pay? — Gloria Steinem

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end. — Aristotle.

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy. — Harry Anderson

I don't think many people will remember me when I retire. — Svetlana Boginskaya

The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life. — Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp