All Quotes

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
‐‐ Louis Dudek

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
‐‐ Michael Connelly

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
‐‐ Denis Diderot

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
‐‐ Mortimer Adler

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
‐‐ Stokely Carmichael

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
‐‐ Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
‐‐ Brian Eno

The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.
‐‐ Tim Jackson

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.
‐‐ Brendan Myers

The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
‐‐ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
‐‐ Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
‐‐ George Santayana

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
‐‐ Aaron Klug

The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.
‐‐ Michael Lee-Chin

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.
‐‐ John Burroughs

The Phoenicians are entitled to be commemorated in history by the side of the Hellenic and Latin nations; but their case affords a fresh proof, and perhaps the strongest proof of all, that the development of national energies in antiquity was of a one-sided character.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen

The 'Phoenix Sun' did a list of the unsexiest men in the world, and I made it to number one. I beat out Bin Laden. He's a terrorist, hasn't bathed in months. I beat him out. To me it was a great honor.
‐‐ Gilbert Gottfried

The phone conversations about a possible TV series of 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' stretch back years, but now that the moment has come, now that I am actually here at Wentworth Woodhouse, I lose my bearings.
‐‐ Susanna Clarke

The phone is one hundred, one hundred and ten years old. There was a middle period where the government had a broad ability to surveil, but if you look at human history in total, people evolved and civilizations evolved with private conversations and private speech.
‐‐ Brian Acton

The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby.
‐‐ Matt LeBlanc

The phone space is tough because it is consolidated.
‐‐ Brian Krzanich

The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.
‐‐ David Josiah Brewer

The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do with myself, but they usually don't use a bad photo, so you can't worry too much. So my main concern is that I just look a bit more like myself.
‐‐ Sophie Okonedo

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
‐‐ Penelope Lively

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.
‐‐ David Hockney

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
‐‐ Henri Cartier-Bresson

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.
‐‐ Stephen Sprouse

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.
‐‐ Gordon Parks

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.
‐‐ Peter Lindbergh

The photographic image... is a message without a code.
‐‐ Roland Barthes

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
‐‐ Ed Markey

The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
‐‐ Burt Rutan

The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.
‐‐ Nicholas D. Kristof

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.
‐‐ Carol Vorderman

The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient.
‐‐ Craig Venter

The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.'
‐‐ George Packer

The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
‐‐ Joe DiMaggio

The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government.
‐‐ Amity Shlaes

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.
‐‐ Lorde

The phrase 'work/life balance' encapsulates a depressing outlook.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson