All Quotes

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.
‐‐ Charles Scott Sherrington

That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you.
‐‐ Paul Gleason

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
‐‐ Francis Hutcheson

That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night.
‐‐ Stephenie Meyer

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
‐‐ Jennifer Egan

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
‐‐ Adam Savage

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.
‐‐ Emanuel Swedenborg

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere.
‐‐ Rob Walton

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.
‐‐ Paul Hawken

That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work.
‐‐ Richard M. Daley

That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces.
‐‐ Robyn Davidson

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
‐‐ Anna Deavere Smith

That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.
‐‐ Gordon Gould

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
‐‐ June Jordan

That attitude that I wouldn't succeed didn't come from my family; it came from school and then the township we lived in. I wasn't going to settle for that, and my mother warned us not to settle for less, to make the most of our lives.
‐‐ Alexis Wright

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.
‐‐ John Schlesinger

That audience is there for me.
‐‐ GG Allin

That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
‐‐ Pat Barker

That Bears quarterback is no good. He's washed up. He's 30.
‐‐ Donny Most

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
‐‐ Alan Parsons

That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.
‐‐ Todd McFarlane

That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.
‐‐ Sally Schneider

That big hit 'Get Lucky' is a disco song - not only the melody and the whole concept, but we had one of the great disco guys and one of the best guitarists ever, Nile Rodgers, to play on it. So that's great disco, but a modern disco, because it has great vocoders and synthesizers.
‐‐ Giorgio Moroder

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
‐‐ Ada Lovelace

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
‐‐ Ken Thompson

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.
‐‐ Robert Winston

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
‐‐ Arne Jacobsen

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.
‐‐ David Amram

That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State.
‐‐ Ali Abdullah Saleh

That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books.
‐‐ Laurie Halse Anderson

That can definitely mess with your music - if you overthink. 'What's radio going to think?' or 'What are these people going to think?'
‐‐ Ashley Monroe

That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.
‐‐ Manuel Moroun

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.
‐‐ James Gunn

That character called 'Robin Wright' in the movie called 'The Congress' has nothing to do with me... I've never felt that way about life choices, career, etc.
‐‐ Robin Wright

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
‐‐ Charles Tupper

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.
‐‐ Charles E. Wilson

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
‐‐ Richard Schickel

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
‐‐ John Ruskin

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.
‐‐ Mick Fleetwood

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
‐‐ Vince McMahon

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
‐‐ Hall Caine

That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
‐‐ Sam Altman

That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.
‐‐ Joshua Micah Marshall

That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit.
‐‐ Mercer Reynolds

That Days of Our Lives thing for a week nearly killed me.
‐‐ Lesley-Anne Down

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.
‐‐ Knute Nelson