Pairwise Quotes & Sayings

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change. — Isabelle Adjani

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

People make decisions that may have one intent and yet are somehow perverted into something else. And sometimes it's because of design. Sometimes it's because of happenstance. But very often, it's mysterious to them. — Atom Egoyan

I'm one of the first invention capitalists. — Nathan Myhrvold

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler. — Gene Simmons

They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers. — Jello Biafra

(To clarify, when white people say dark they mean Greek or Italian but when black people say dark they mean Grace Jones.) — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We owe the low price of electricity today to the power grid, the network that emerged
through these pairwise connections, linking all producers and consumers
into a single network. It allows cheaply produced power to be instantly
transported anywhere. Electricity hence offers a wonderful example of the
huge positive impact networks have on our life — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Durkheim frequently criticized his contemporaries, such as Freud, who tried to explain morality and religion using only the psychology of individuals and their pairwise relationships. (God is just a father figure, said Freud.) Durkheim argued, in contrast, that Homo sapiens was really Homo duplex, a creature who exists at two levels: as an individual and as part of the larger society. — Jonathan Haidt

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts. — Rachel Weisz

I'm not a romantic. — Jack Kevorkian

I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon. — Eddie Redmayne