Gilbert Grape Betty Carver Quotes & Sayings

We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. — Edward R. Murrow

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me. — Zach Braff

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind. — Boyd Rice

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself. — Amos Bronson Alcott

One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement. — John Desmond Bernal

Ignorance' (absence of Self-Knowledge) creates vibrations (causes) and 'Knowledge' (Self-Knowledge) stops these vibrations. — Dada Bhagwan

Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global ... — Rene Thom

Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if you are a libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed. — Lee Kuan Yew

Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,' Kenny had said - as if Cam was a factory full of strike-prone workers, or worse, a clutch of slaves forced into unwanted labor. — Neal Shusterman

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool. — Edward Abbey

The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved. — James Allen

One of the anarch's emoluments is that he is distinguished for things that he has done on the side or that go against his grain. — Ernst Junger

I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on. — Betty Field

If I have a spreadsheet that can, whatever, turn soup cans into gold, wouldn't I deserve an office? — Charlie Close