Sim Carstairs Quotes & Sayings

Now (obviously) a sentence's truth - even when we hold the sentence's meaning fixed - depends on which world we are considering. "Brown is Prime Minister" is true in the actual world but, since Brown need not have been Prime Minister, there are countless worlds in which "Brown is Prime Minister" is false: in those worlds, Brown did not succeed Tony Blair, or never went into politics, or never even existed. And in some other worlds, someone else is Prime Minister - David Cameron, P. F. Strawson, me, Madonna, or Daffy Duck. In still others, there is no such office as Prime Minister, or not even a Britain; and so on and so forth. So a given sentence or proposition varies its truth-value from world to world. — William G. Lycan

Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip to the meta-narrative peddled. — Ilana Mercer

The dream that I've been having, about my high-school sweetheart, is not really about my high-school sweetheart, when you get right down to it. It's not a dream about Alison Koechner and our lost love and the precious little three-bedroom house in Maine we might have built together, had things gone a different way. I am not dreaming of white picket fences and Sunday crosswords and warm tea.
There's no asteroid in the dream. In the dream, life continues. Simple life, happy and white-picket lined or otherwise. Mere life. Goes on.
When I'm dreaming of Alison Koechner, what I'm dreaming of is not dying. — Ben H. Winters

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is. — Anthony Bourdain

The market for nonsense is infinite. — James Randi

I believe in the difference between men and women. In fact, I embrace the difference. — Elizabeth Taylor

Genius,thou gift of heaven; without whose aid in vain we struggle against the stream of nature. — Henry Fielding

Like a child in new boots leaping from puddle to puddle, this view sees history as leapfrogging from one bloodbath to the next, from World War One to World War Two to the Cold War, from the Armenian genocide to the Jewish genocide to the Rwandan genocide, from Robespierre to Lenin to Hitler. — Yuval Noah Harari

There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying. — Rachel Naomi Remen

An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973. — Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

There was a time when the young of many clans joined together to make new clans. — Jean M. Auel

I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses. — Jackson Rathbone

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts. — Anzia Yezierska