Woodcuts Robert Quotes & Sayings

The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world, even if he has to speak of numbers, vectors, tensors, state-functions, or whatever to make the abstraction. — Hilary Putnam

Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor - these are degrees of the same mental illness. If you need to be approved of simultaneously by more people than are in this room now, there's a problem. — Keith Olbermann

You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is. — Rachel Joyce

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one. — William Baldwin

The psychologist Geoffrey Miller, when pondering why we haven't come across any alien species as yet, decided that they were probably all addicted to video games and are thus brought to an extreme state of apathy - the exploratory opposite of the heroes in Star Trek who spend all their time seeking out "new life and new civilizations." The — Michael Harris

I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat. — Nigella Lawson

She was famous, and she was insane.
Her voice soared out over the audience, holding them spellbound and enraptured, delivering their hopes and fears tangled in chords and rhythm. They called her an angel, her voice a gift.
She was famous, and she was a liar. — Dianne Sylvan

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives. — Barry Schwartz

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains. — Robert A. Heinlein

Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we? — Phil Daniels

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep. — Carolyn Parkhurst

If I had to do it all over again, I'd rather endure the pain in the beginning than have had it easy and then have it all go to shit later on. — Jamie McGuire

Maybe she wasn't loved widely, but she was loved deeply. Isn't that more than most of us get? — John Green