All Quotes

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
‐‐ Jerome Bruner

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes were popping and their jaws were dropping, and I really enjoyed that.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.
‐‐ Henry Charles Carey

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
‐‐ Patti Smith

In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.
‐‐ Tom Hollander

In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

In the Philippines, we don't have that much of a problem. There's not much difference between the men and the women. In our business, we always have a good mixture of the men and the women.
‐‐ Teresita Sy-Coson

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.
‐‐ Helmut Newton

In the physical world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a wanted man.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.
‐‐ Alma Gluck

In the pie chart of my brain growing up, there's a huge slice for 'Ghostbusters.'
‐‐ Evan Goldberg

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.
‐‐ Jasper Johns

In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd

In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.
‐‐ Sue Townsend

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.
‐‐ Denis Johnson

In the poetic tradition, the heart's affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people's hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time.
‐‐ David Whyte

In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers.
‐‐ Akhmad Kadyrov

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.
‐‐ Andy Summers

In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.
‐‐ Anthony Kennedy

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
‐‐ Narendra Modi

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.
‐‐ Polly Toynbee

In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.
‐‐ Peter T. King

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That's both because of the physicality of computing - where the speed of light still matters - and because of geopolitics.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.
‐‐ Klaus Fuchs

In the post-Watergate atmosphere of 1975 and 1976, the just-plain-folks personalities of both Ford and Carter seemed the perfect antidote to Nixon's arrogant, isolated presidency. But as alert history-minded readers know, Ford and Carter were both rebuffed by voters in their efforts to hold on to the presidency.
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
‐‐ Robert Hall

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
‐‐ Niklaus Wirth

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

In the pre-production process, I am emailing with the actors or jumping on the phone, and we're sort of figuring out who the characters are and trying to build the relationship dynamic and things like that. Then, also, I am outlining.
‐‐ Joe Swanberg

In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.
‐‐ Al Roker

In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did.
‐‐ Jerry B. Jenkins

In the preseason, in the month of October, I work out almost every day, lifting weights for 20 or 30 minutes, and then during the season I usually lift weights twice a week, sometimes a little more.
‐‐ Steve Nash

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

In the presence of your own loving attention, you create the inner conditions that are necessary to step into the next greatest evolution of yourself.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.
‐‐ Trofim Lysenko

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
‐‐ Karl Liebknecht

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
‐‐ Humphry Davy

In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we're not aware of. This could be the 'in-between the notes generation.'
‐‐ Garrett Hedlund

In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.
‐‐ Richard Gere

In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the process of politicising, don't commit national crime. Don't prevent exploration in the country. Let us move ahead more aggressively; it is in the best interest of the country.
‐‐ Veerappa Moily

In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
‐‐ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.
‐‐ Robin Williams