Fortean Phenomena Quotes & Sayings

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery. — Richard P. Feynman

All is Ephemeral, fame and the famous as well. — Marcus Aurelius

I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other ... The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements. — Nelson Mandela

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens. — George Clooney

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man. — Blaise Pascal

to be a fiction writer, you also need to be a psychologist (understanding people's personalities and intentions), a philosopher (asking big questions about meaning and human nature), and a poet (breathing life into your words and the spaces between them). — Steven James

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. — Kathryn Bigelow

Women are different from men in major, major ways. I have found more courage in women than you could ever find in men, and I love men, in terms of father, brother, everyone, disciples, students etc. Yet men have certain powers of compassion that are hard-pressed to be found in a woman to that degree. — Maya Tiwari

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling "traditions"; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician's discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as "identities" that fit in the larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innovation. — Susan Sontag

I had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun. — John Krasinski

Quite often, when one partner makes a positive change the other will also change. This predictable coincidence is one of those magical things about life. — John Gray

Culture is Anarchistic if it is alive at all. — Siva Vaidhyanathan