Profiles Theatre Quotes & Sayings

I'm tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help. — Sebastian Seung

The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested. — Fulton J. Sheen

Seeing in the air things that the others did not see. — Alessandro Baricco

If psychoanalysis was late-19th-century secular Judaism's way of constructing spiritual meaning in a post-religious world and retail is the late 20th century's way of constructing meaning in a postreligious world, what does it mean that I'm impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday? — David Rakoff

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies. — Roger Moore

Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century. — Tariq Ali

We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand outside things and run them that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be. — Ursula K. Le Guin

What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets! — Cassandra Clare

Engineer: You can wait over there, across the street at the Orpheum.
Eli: No, I'll wait here.
Engineer: Bar is about ready to open.
Eli: I'll wait here.
Engineer: You don't trust me, do you?
Eli: Uh ... I'll wait here. — Book Of Eli Movie

Cute-and-furry was always an easier sell than carapaced-and-multilegged, for some obscure reason. Grownups, so unreasonable ... — Lois McMaster Bujold

it is, just a door.
if you never knock,
it may, never open. — JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon

No one nor anything can silence me. — Dmitri Mendeleev

I do not believe that human lives may be made the means for satisfying an artist's desire for self-expression. We must demand, rather, that every man should be given, if he wishes, the right to model his life himself, as far as this does not interfere too much with others. Much as I may sympathize with the aesthetic impulse, I suggest that the artist might seek expression in another material. Politics, I demand, must uphold equalitarian and individualistic principles; dreams of beauty have to submit to the necessity of helping men in distress, and men who suffer injustice; and to the necessity of constructing institutions to serve such purposes. — Karl R. Popper

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel. — Chris Evert

Far Out is never far enough because one challenge, if it is worthy at all, has to be followed by a greater challenge. — Tomi Ungerer