Phenomenon Quotes - Page 8

• There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Unique, Individuality, Admiration And Respect

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• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mean, Cities In The World, Talking

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks: Part 1 of 3". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

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• For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

  Christopher Moore

  Loyalty, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

  Alan Moore

  Country, America, Superhero

  "Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. February 23, 2009.

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• One of the main reasons I wrote The Sleep Revolution was to examine this ancient, essential, and mysterious phenomenon from all angles and to explore the ways we can use sleep to help regain control over our out-of-kilter lives.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sleep, Revolution, Helping

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• "Culture" is a new phenomenon, I believe. Culture is the new religion. People treat you based upon your culture. You are pushed to describe yourself by your culture: Kurdish or Turkish? Left wing or right wing? Progressive or conservative? Westerner or Easterner? European or Asian? So we have a label ready for you.

  Burhan Sonmez

  Being Yourself, Believe, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Ecosystems, Fundamentals

  Arthur Erickson's address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

  Arthur Erickson

  Attitude, Artist, Order

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• I'm not sure a person ever really reveals the whole of himsels or herself to another person, and I'm not sure we should. Or rather, just because you don't, it doesn't mean you can't have a meaningful relationship with another person. It's important to remember that this idea of confessing your most shameful, embarrassing stories and self to someone else as an expression of love and intimacy is a relatively recent phenomenon, and a new definition of what it means to be close to someone. After all, the self is by its nature secretive.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Meaningful, Important, Remember

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.

  Gail Collins

  Thinking, Class, Black

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• Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Animal, Unique, World

  Noam Chomsky (2006). “Language and Mind”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution as it does to engage in cosmology while you're thinking the universe is still geocentric.

  Brian Boyd

  Thinking, Literature, Evolution

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.

  David Cameron

  Fall, Taken, Self

  "David Cameron's EU speech - full text". www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me to be a peculiarly English phenomenon.

  Martin Amis

  People, Feelings, Egotism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• "Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. "Oh, they're too old to make films or write books." You know what I mean?

  Paul Weller

  Book, Mean, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• One of the most abused country on earth is Mexico. The marketing spills over the border, and people are persuaded to eat food that's bad for them, more in rich countries than in poor ones. I was traveling the world. What really struck me was the way we engage with food - how it's a global phenomenon - the world becoming more and more disconnected from it.

  Raj Patel

  Country, People, Marketing

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• Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?

  Margaret Atwood

  Animal, Joy, Forever

  "Margaret Atwood: 'I have a big following among the biogeeks. 'Finally! Someone understands us!'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2013.

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• These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.

  Julian Assange

  Important, Increase

  "An Interview With WikiLeaks' Julian Assange". Interview with Andy Greenberg, www.forbes.com. November 29, 2010.

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• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

  Hannah Arendt

  Religious, Political, One Day

  "Crises of the Republic". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: "Civil Disobedience", 1972.

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• I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Flower, Tree

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• 'Twilight' is a phenomenon. And I'm so happy it's all captured on film. It's going to be something I'll always look back on, for sure.

  Ashley Greene

  Twilight, Looks, Film

  Interview With Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Facts, Popularity, Masculine

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.159, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person.

  Moby

  Hate, People, Strange

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• My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Admiration, Alcoholics Anonymous, Boundless

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

  Ernst Mayr

  Rate, Seems, Vertical

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press

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