Le Premier Homme Quotes & Sayings

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business. — Mia Wasikowska

As Michael T. Ghiselin (1974) said: We are anything but a mechanism set up to perceive the truth for its own sake. Rather, we have evolved a nervous system that acts in the interest of our gonads, and one attuned to the demands of reproductive competition. If fools are more prolific than wise men, then to that degree folly will be favored by selection. And if ignorance aids in obtaining a mate, then men and women will tend to be ignorant. (p. 126) — Jeffry A. Simpson

In his autobiography, What Mad Pursuit, he speaks of the difference between physics and biology: — Oliver Sacks

Happiness like this is frightening ... they only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something away from you — Khaled Hosseini

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art. — Russell Sherman

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue — George F. Kennan

I have heard from many readers since 'The Girl in the Blue Beret' came out. The story of my airline pilot, former B-17 bomber pilot Marshall Stone, on his search to find the people who helped him during World War II has struck a chord. — Bobbie Ann Mason

To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving. — Allan McNish

Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around. — Neil Young

We have contact with alien cultures. — Brian O'Leary

There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. — D.H. Lawrence

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. — Ram Dass

Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils. — John Granger

Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference. — Amanda Ripley

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor