Transmittable Versus Quotes & Sayings

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues. — John Calvin

Happiness is transmittable. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When choosing sexual partners, remember: Talent is not sexually transmittable. — Tina Fey

There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you don't have to be weird or be quirky to get your job done. And two, comedy skill is not sexually transmittable. You do not have to sleep with a comedian to learn what you're doing. Male comedians will not like that advice, but it is the truth. — Tina Fey

There is indeed a great force in the world, a force spiritual and able to shape the physical universe, but that force is not something cut off, not something separate from ourselves. It is the energy in us, the strongest in our working, breathing, thinking together as one people; weakest when we are scattered, confused, broken into individual, unconnected fragments. — Ayi Kwei Armah

Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known. — Johan Norberg

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [ ... ] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it. — David Attenborough

And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. — J.K. Rowling

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy. — Robert Kuttner

Tacit knowledge is personal, context-specific, and therefore hard to formalize and communicate. Explicit or "codified" knowledge, on the other hand, refers to knowledge that is transmittable in formal, systematic language. — Ikujiro Nonaka

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene. — Howard Stern

You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness. — Chris Prentiss