Emmyland Quotes & Sayings

Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation. The typical system can exist in a variety of states, some ordered, some chaotic. Instead of two opposed polarities, there is a continuous spectrum. As harmony and discord combine in musical beauty, so order and chaos combine in mathematical [and physical] beauty. — Ian Stewart

Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness. — Ford Madox Ford

A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks, which you'll learn all about when you're older and don't care anymore. — Catherynne M Valente

While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic. — James MacDonald

Thank you, people of Emmyland. To be nominated in such company is an honour, especially for two shows that I'm immensely proud of. I'm delighted. — Martin Freeman

Nature does not proceed by leaps. — Carl Linnaeus

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould — Oswald Chambers

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist. — Terence McKenna

My favourite films are in languages I don't understand. — Chika Anadu

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays. — Leigh-Allyn Baker

Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality. — Paul Watzlawick