Reconfirmed Quotes & Sayings

Odd names: Winter, Autumn - they almost sound as if someone just made them up. - Dubb — Richard Due

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family. — Francois Gautier

My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy. — Paul Shaffer

In life, we always fall for the person who will never fall for us, always want things we can't have, and say things we shouldn't. — Zayn Malik

So I was a poodle of the future; I made prophecies. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting. — Kurt Angle

That isn't my choice to make. I didn't tell you so I could claim you. Nobody belongs to anyone else. — Jodi Picoult

The deepest human intuition is not the immediate grasping of the classical-physics-type character of the external world. It is rather that one's own conscious subjective efforts can influence the experiences that follow. Any conception of nature that makes this deep intuition an illusion is counterintuitive. Any conception of reality that cannot explain how our conscious efforts influence our bodily actions is problematic. What is actually deeply intuitive is the continually reconfirmed fact that our conscious efforts can influence certain kinds of experiential feedback. A putatively rational scientific theory needs at the very least to explain this connection in a rational way to be in line with intuition. — Paul Davies

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice. — Don Paterson

A miniature model of the solar system, contained within a glass dome. It was a beautiful thing; each of the moons glimmered in place around the nine planets and the fiery sun, — J.K. Rowling

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess. — Bobby Fischer

The locker rooms were clean when we departed because I asked the players to pick up after themselves. I believe this is just common courtesy. Somebody's going to have to clean it up, and I see no reason why it shouldn't be the person who messed it up. — John Wooden

I live way below my means. — Chris Rock

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve. — Liane Moriarty

Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a faith-based initiative in rhetorical argument. Should we teach I.D. in America's public schools? Yes, let's do - not as science, but alongside other spiritual beliefs, such as Islam, Zoroastrianism and the Hindu Idea that Earth rests on Chukwa, the giant turtle. — David Quammen

The surviving human beings there could do nothing but wait for the end to come. They chose different ways to live out their final days. That was the plot.** It was a dark movie offering no hope of salvation. (Though, watching it, Aomame reconfirmed her belief that everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.)
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On the Beach, the 1959 movie, director: Stanley Kramer, writer: John Paxton, starring: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire & Anthony Perkins. On the Beach, the 1957 novel, writer: Nevil Shute. — Haruki Murakami

You have to be more prepared than anyone else in the room, even if you aren't planning on speaking up. (Read two articles on a subject every morning and you'll shine - trust me. It's how I make my living.) — Greg Gutfeld