Howell Jenkins Quotes & Sayings

The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest lawsof atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience. — Willard Van Orman Quine

It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own. — Bill Bryson

I'm not a huge fan of 3-D, though. Honestly, I think that movies are an immersive experience and an audience experience. There's nothing like seeing a film with 500 people in a theater. And there's something about putting on 3-D glasses that makes it a very singular experience for me. Suddenly I'm not connected to the audience anymore. — Todd Phillips

It is better to know than to be caught between hope and fear. — Sue Harrison

Despite what your momma told ya, violence does solve problems. — Chris Kyle

Sophie left the den and wandered about in the large garden. She tried to forget what she had learned at school, especially in science classes.
If she had grown up in this garden without knowing anything at all about nature, how would she feel about the spring?
Would she try to invent some kind of explanation for why it suddenly started to rain one day?
Would she work out some fantasy to explain where the snow went and why the sun rose in the morning? — Jostein Gaarder

We must change the culture of politics first. — Michael Skolnik

What happened?" He directed the question her way. Hadleigh shrugged, it seemed obvious to her. "I think I broke the pretty one. — Jane Cousins

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~ — Susan Wiggs

I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that. — Dave Gahan

We are a plague on the Earth. — David Attenborough

In order to win, you must expect to win. — Richard Bach

It would be so easy to lose the plot now. It's not about achieving something for its own sake, and taking pictures for their own sake. But to make conscious decisions and choices, and it includes this constant questioning - Why am I taking pictures? Because really, the world is ... it has pictures enough. I mean, there are enough pictures out there. — Wolfgang Tillmans

During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able to save people, witnessing their pain. — Janine Di Giovanni