All Quotes

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
‐‐ David Guterson

What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
‐‐ Iggy Pop

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.
‐‐ Robert Reich

What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.
‐‐ Dallas Willard

What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you're fine.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.
‐‐ Johann Gottlieb Fichte

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
‐‐ Julie Burchill

What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time.
‐‐ Moby

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
‐‐ James Madison

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
‐‐ Michelangelo

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.
‐‐ Serge Lang

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.
‐‐ James Wolcott

What started it all was the Kanye album, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.' We started listening to that and just fell in love with it, fell in love with his production style.
‐‐ Andrew Dost

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

What Stieg Larsson was up to - it was the Swedish guilt over World War II. All of our neighbors had the most terrible experiences with the bad forces, but Sweden didn't. I think we use the thrillers in a different way. We never write a thriller like 'Who is the murderer?' The big question in most of our thrillers is... 'Why?'
‐‐ Michael Nyqvist

What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the electricity of someone touching, massaging and torturing themselves to get life out of an inanimate object.
‐‐ Henry Selick

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
‐‐ John Eldredge

What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.
‐‐ Sundar Pichai

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
‐‐ Andrew Lloyd Webber

What strikes me is that 'XIII' looks like a movie. The shot making is movie-like, which is kind of fun - the kind of playful action movie shot making is pretty, is pretty good. What's also great about this game is its style and interesting story-line.
‐‐ David Duchovny

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
‐‐ Michel Foucault

What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.
‐‐ Bee Wilson

What strikes me when I leave Washington is the extent to which there's a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country. The rest of the country is not hyper partisan.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense.
‐‐ Paul Johnson

What struck me first on reading the Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper was how small the consequences of the radiation release from the Fukushima reactor accident are projected to be compared to the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake and tsunami.
‐‐ Burton Richter

What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all.
‐‐ Rodman Philbrick

What surprised me most while writing 'The Monogram Murders' was that everything I needed seemed to arrive in my head exactly when I needed it.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.
‐‐ Christopher Parker

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.
‐‐ Rick Warren

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
‐‐ Hans Blix

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.
‐‐ Elaine Pagels

What 'Survivor' is really about is the inescapability of your being yourself, even when you have told yourself you can be someone different for 30 days.
‐‐ Andrea Seigel

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.
‐‐ David Guterson

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
‐‐ Francois Truffaut

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
‐‐ Jeane Kirkpatrick

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
‐‐ Diane Duane