Atomists Quotes

#1. The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.

Bertrand Russell

#2. Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

Glen Duncan

#3. I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.

Nick Clegg

#4. For anyone who devours the web on a daily basis, the biggest problem is too much of a good thing. There's so much extraordinary content - from articles to images, videos and Tweets - that it's almost impossible to keep track of it.

Ryan Holmes

#5. Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.

Amit Chaudhuri

#6. I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

Woodrow Wilson

#7. The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything, writes the neurologist Daniel Levitin.

Malcolm Gladwell

#8. It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

Rivers Cuomo

#9. Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and I am, too. So I write them stories in hopes that they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places.

Jean Craighead George

#10. I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

Anne Lamott

#11. There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.

John Logie Baird

#12. 'Marley and Me' was a book I was proud of and believed in, but I thought it would just have a modest audience because it is such a personal story about my marriage and my family.

John Grogan

#13. I am deeply stoned on the intoxicating effects of [Country Music.]

Cary Ann Hearst