Definite Quotes - Page 24

• In film as a medium, you're often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it's usually a very definite point of view.

  Keira Knightley

  Thinking, Views, Film

  Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2011.

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• Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give back the material of which they are made so that new stars may live

  Hans Bethe

  Stars, Animal, Giving

  Hans Albrecht Bethe (1968). “Energy production in stars: Nobel lecture”

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• Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of similar composition and dissimilar properties isomeric, from the Greek ίσομερης (composed of equal parts).

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Science, Ideas, Greek

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• There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of power and force. There's a definite presence there.' That was it. He wanted to call it `Obelisk'. To me, it was more important what was behind the obelisk. The cover is very tongue-in-cheek, to be quite honest. Sort of a joke on 2001. I think it's quite amusing.

  Jimmy Page

  Thinking, Important, Groups

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• What is a loophole? If the law does not punish a definite action or does not tax a definite thing, this is not a loophole. It is simply the law.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Law, Doe, Action

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• I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Idlers, May

  "My Inventions" by Nikola Tesla, (Ch. 1), 1919.

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• So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mad, Imagination, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.21, Stanford University Press

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• The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Mind, Needs

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• The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Prayer, Children

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.111, SCM Press

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• I forgot my watch. Minutes or hours later, when the panic subsides, that is what I most regret. Not coming here in the first place - that seemed like an obvious choice - but my bare wrist, which makes it impossible for me to know how long I have been sitting in this room. My back aches, which is some indication, but it is not definite enough.

  Veronica Roth

  Regret, Long, Choices

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• All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

  William James

  Habit, Form, Mass

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.56, Nuvision Pubns

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• I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.

  Jacques Lacan

  Past, Perfect, Becoming

  Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (1980). “Écrits: a selection”

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• The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

  Emma Goldman

  Heart, Space, Soul

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• It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Kids, Black And White, Thinking

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• It all began when... they're funny, those words. Everyone uses them, without thinking what they mean. When does anything begin? With everyone it begins when you're born. Or before that, when your parents got married. Or before that, when your parents were born. Or when your ancestors colonised the place. Or when humans came squishing out of the mud and slime, dropped off their flippers and fins, and started to walk. But all the same, all that aside, for what's happened to us there was quite a definite beginning

  John Marsden

  Mean, Thinking, Parent

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• Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid to those suffering from hunger and/or malnutrition worldwide.

  Cat Cora

  Ocean, Doctors, Humanity

  "Climbing a Mountain for Hunger" by Cat Cora, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

  Ernst Mach

  Fields, Adaptation

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.

  Colleen Atwood

  Class, Style, Trying

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• A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Strong, Mean

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• I think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are in between states, that we are moving, and this movement is the nature of our lives, and we stop having aspirations for being in a definite state, we know life better and are able to enjoy it better.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Moving, Thinking, Able

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.” “Sir?” “That’s practically zen.

  Terry Pratchett

  Authority, Used, Streaks

  Terry Pratchett (1996). “Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld”, Harper Prism

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• There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Doe, Honest

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• My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.

  Yves Klein

  Creative, Preparation, Titles

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• God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Forgiveness, Wise, Forgiving

  Richard Salter Storrs (1875). “Conditions of Success in Preaching Without Notes: Three Lectures Delivered Before the Students of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, Januray 13, 20, 27: 1875; with an Appendix”, p.114

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• It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Religious, Art

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