Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terence McKenna

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

Terence McKenna

Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.

Temple Grandin

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

Scott Lynch

I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we’re witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.

Sia Furler

I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.

Si Robertson

People say, "Look, your book [Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle] is about tall tales." And I said, "No, you don't understand, OK? The book is tall tales, OK, by me. But look, those tall tales are my life, OK? And look, I added some spices in there. That's the five percent. You know the one about the wolves chasing me? The only thing about that - they wasn't wolves, they was coyotes".

Shunryu Suzuki

When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.

Shirin Ebadi

Europe clearly is the only place where people can speak up critically, and this is a unique cultural value.

Shelby Lynne

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite film in Pakistan, dealing with Urdu and Punjabi dialogue with an English-speaking editor and all the difficulties in recording, editing and clearing so many music tracks.

Seth

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

Leymah Gbowee

There is something in this world that every individual can do. God has created all of us with something unique to contribute.

Lewis Thomas

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Lady Starlight

As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.

Marcus Aurelius

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

Simon Conway Morris

The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

Simon Bolivar

In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.

Sid Caesar

When I did comedy I made fun of myself.If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. And people looked at me and said, 'Gee, that's like Uncle David', or 'That's like a friend of mine'. And they related through that. I didn't make fun of them. I made fun of me.

Sidney Hook

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I think what a lot of people see as unique is using different technology or different techniques [to make games], but I feel like, as long as you have a core that's unlike others, that's what 'unique' is.

Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

Shanina Shaik

Everyone has something unique about them.

Shannen Doherty

I can't stand unpacking.

Natalie MacMaster

I’m very proud to say that Buddy MacMaster is my uncle. He gives credibility to what I do and I’m glad I can carry that MacMaster name because he has created such a good name.

Natalie MacMaster

My uncle Buddy MacMaster is one of the greatest fiddlers Cape Breton has ever produced, and we've produced a lot of them! His fellow fiddlers owe him a huge debt, for he has greatly influenced and inspired all of us. He makes you want to dance; he can bring tears to your eyes. Anyone who likes Cape Breton fiddle - no, anyone who likes fiddling - needs to own this album

Natalie Massenet

There is no recipe for success - it is as unique as you are

Tatiana Maslany

There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

Josh Radnor

Each film is difficult, in its own particular way. There's a unique set of challenges on every movie.

Joseph Glanvill

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

Kate Morton

We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.

Justin Halpern

The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.