Dimensions Quotes - Page 26

• Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Football, Responsibility, Player

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• I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from.

  Paul Feig

  Religious, Powerful, Father

  "Can I be God for a little while?" by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2005.

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• Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.

  Brian Greene

  Eye, Bigs, Detection

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• To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it's hard to say.

  Brian Greene

  Three, Claims, Mets

  NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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• Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Views, Brain

  "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Ideas, Mind

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• What we call the 'world' and the 'universe' is only one frequency range in an infinite number sharing the same space. The interdimensional entities I write about are able to move between these frequencies or dimensions and manipulate our lives.

  David Icke

  Moving, Writing, Numbers

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

  Jesse Jackson

  College, Race, Class

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• Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Reality, Technology

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Talking, World, Gaps

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• I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Mean, Desire, Kind

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• I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that, I certainly believe in equal rights. I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so, in a lot of different dimensions. But I don't, I think, have sort of the militant drive and the sort of the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.

  Marissa Mayer

  Believe, Thinking, Rights

  "Makers: Women Who Make America". PBS/AOL documentary, www.businessinsider.com. February 26, 2013.

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• My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

  Yoko Ono

  Heart, Sound, Different

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• I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to me, so the murmuring Greek chorus of a hashtag might be a perfect way to liven them up and give them a bit of dimension.

  Susan Orlean

  Giving, Perfect, Greek

  "Rehash" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 14, 2010.

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• Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.

  Liz Phair

  Skills, Giving, Essentials

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• It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Moments

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• As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.

  James Wolcott

  Stars, Clicks, Familiar

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• Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

  Michael Cunningham

  Death, Modest

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.165, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.

  Edith Södergran

  Self Confidence, Doe, Facts

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• Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

  Walt Disney

  Lying, Simple, Fantasy

  "The Rides of Passage". "Via" Magazine, July 2005.

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• I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.

  Steven Wright

  Mirrors, House, Tape

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• There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)

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• This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . . Next stop The Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, Reality, Land

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• I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.

  Douglas Coupland

  War, Ambition, Greed

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• When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, World, Recognition

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.74, Penguin

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