Elizabeth Anscombe Quotes & Sayings

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics. — Jared Harris

One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to. — Glenn Branca

He is looking down at her peaceful, rigid face fading into the dusk as though darkness were a precursor of the ultimate earth, until at last the face seems to float detached upon it, lightly as the reflection of a dead leaf. — William Faulkner

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers. — Jeremy Lin

Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently. — Daryn Kagan

The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols for concepts that the machine would combine by the strict rules of logic or the looser associations of psychology. — Daniel Crevier

I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution. — John Lennon

This is a radical jihadist group that is increasingly sophisticated in its ability, for example, to radicalize American citizens, in its inability to exploit loopholes in our legal immigration system, in its ability to capture and hold territory in the Middle East, as I outlined earlier, in multiple countries. — Marco Rubio

My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog? — Edie Falco

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard. — Kami Garcia

I'm not online. I'm not on Facebook much. I don't connect that way. — Sarah McLachlan

Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world ... — Fulton J. Sheen

We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean air or water with fusion energy - we are kidding ourselves. — E. O. Wilson