Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren E. Burger

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

Miguel Syjuco

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

Jose Padilha

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

Eric Alterman

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

Paul Biya

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

Eisaku Sato

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.

Manuel Puig

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

Jonathan Coe

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

Joe Pantoliano

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

Joe Monahan

He could influence the outcome of the race. If he does have any ideas he wants to see advanced, this is the time to do it.

Jon Hurst

There are still a ton of mom-and-pops out there that come up with new ideas and new niches.

Monica Procar

We make a lot of what is in here ourselves. We make the wreaths and the swags and whatever ideas that we can come up with.

Isadora Duncan

ideas and words that do not make any sense.

Robert Collier

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Rob Reiner

Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a movie called Roadie and we thought, "Oh, we can't do that now." So we kind of discarded the idea.

Rob Reiner

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

Rob Sheffield

We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.

Rob Brown

When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Raymond Chandler

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

William S. Burroughs

Too perfect to be sexually attractive.

William S. Burroughs

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

William Shatner

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

William Shatner

We were basically one and the same, although Jim [Kirk] was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.

William Gibson

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

Tucker Max

I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.