Hirschfelder Dazed Quotes & Sayings

One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style — Cary Grant

Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No memories and no pain. A day when the ones with abundance do not look down at the poor and the needy, a day when we learn to care for the victims, the fallen souls of civilization and advancement, a day when the world will be pure. When all of humanity becomes a clean sheet of parchment, without knowledge and prejudice, simple, hungry for knowing, tasting, and feeling; hungry for life and ready to absorb the ink of experience. — Henry Martin

The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities. So that for example, no mathematical truths apply merely to fish, or merely to stones, or merely to colours. So long as you are dealing with pure mathematics, you are in the realm of complete and absolute abstraction ... Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about. — Alfred North Whitehead

The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ... — Jean Ingelow

The amount of time it took me to get a show like 'Shameless' was definitely worth it because of the people and the material. I can appreciate it because I know what it's like when I didn't have a show. — Shanola Hampton

Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different. — Paulo Freire

(One of the great emancipating results of genomics is to show that all "racial" and color differences are recent, superficial, and misleading.) — Christopher Hitchens

I don't eat bread.' Is she pouting? It's hard to tell. She's had a lot of chemicals injected into her face. — Elizabeth Scott

The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more. — Colleen McCullough

How do we want our air? Pure. How do we want our water? Pure. How do we want sex on our wedding night? Pure. — Molly Kelly

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. — Ibrahim Babangida

The nude thing, I don't know. It's sillier somehow. It's more like physical comedy. But kissing someone, it feels invasive to have everybody watching me. — Ilana Glazer

When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie. — Laurie Metcalf

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor. — Muhammad Yunus