Thagard Foundation Quotes & Sayings

If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When the script's as good as those on 'Game of Thrones,' say, I don't think there was a single occasion where any of us thought there was a bad scene. — Charles Dance

Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked
of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced and disbelieved them immediately and without argument. Why should everything but creativity be open
to scrutiny? What kind of process can this be which unlike all others is not subject
to control? ... What can be more alluring than the discovery of the nature of
talented thought and converting this thinking from occasional and fleeting flashes
into a powerful and controllable fire of knowledge. — Genrich Altshuller

I'm home. I hope the Manchester United fans forgive me for being late. — Robin Van Persie

What on earth did I ask him to tea for! he said to himself, as he went to the pantry. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm not a big heel person anyways, I'll wear them on the red carpet, but I've always been the one who loves loafers and brogues. — Jaime King

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want. — Tom Cruise

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. — Abdelaziz Bouteflika

It sounds to me like you're making excuses," Jeb said quietly. "You're trying to convince yourself, and you're using me to listen to yourself talk. — Nicholas Sparks