Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kaminer

The dissemination of pseudoscience, including such things as the fascination with near-death experiences and the growing belief by Americans -- 34 percent of them -- in reincarnation are dangerous. They help to break down the standards of reason.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Freud 's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. (Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.

R. D. Laing

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

Craig Ferguson

Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.

Anurag Kashyap

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

Chris Marker

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

Isaac Asimov

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.

Gwendoline Christie

My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.

Richard Holloway

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

Richelle Mead

‎Keep your love, I have no use for it anymore.

Richard Bach

Perspective: use it or lose it.

Umberto Eco

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

Truman Capote

I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.

Travis Barker

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I`m just going to fly them out and let them hang. It`s all good.

Toyo Ito

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Raymond Chandler

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

William McDonough

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

Gordon Fischer

I think Iowa has lost a visionary -- a brilliant mind -- a gregarious, friendly guy - a great Democrat. I think it's a tremendous loss for Iowa.

Frank Brothers

He was a brilliant 2-year-old in my opinion. He's a bigger-looking colt, and he's done better at 3. He's filled out more and he's gotten taller.

Burt Flickinger

He's a brilliant person, but did not have extensive executive experience

Ian Holloway

He's always had a short fuse and I was going to try and cure him. He's slightly damaged goods, but I think he could be brilliant if I sort him out.

Ron Ahart

He's been playing brilliant lately. He's just going to keep getting better the more he plays in goal.

Charlotte Smith

It is a little hill, or rather three or four hills that seem piled together... and just where their shade is the darkest, they suddenly recede, and, from a stoney excavation, bursts forth a strong and rapid stream of pure and brilliant water, which pours directly down the precipice, and is lost in the trees that crowd over it.

Peter Thompson

It is great to get goals and this is a brilliant honour for me but it is real team effort,

Darren Mattix

I think it was a brilliant strategy to name two council members for the task force.

Jason Hill

I think it's probably one of the most brilliant business moves radio has ever seen. He has so many die-hard fans that will follow him anywhere, and with his publicity and this subscription-based radio he has effectively advertised more for SIRIUS than SIRIUS has.