Dean Keith Simonton Quotes

#1. Children are knives, my mother once said. They don't mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don't we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

Joanne Harris

#2. To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

Eugene Ionesco

#3. from centuries past, as well as contemporary billionaires, such

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. Breakthrough the glass ceiling of limitation that has been placed over your life, be the star of your own team and Champion yourself to victory!

Dwaun S. Cox

#5. Look in the heart and write ... The man who writes like that, without pride or artifice, as it were for himself, is in reality speaking for humanity. Humanity will recognize itself in him, because it is human nature that has inspired the discourse. Life recognizes life!

Antonin Sertillanges

#6. I've only ever gone into studio films with people I really like.

Tilda Swinton

#7. A lot of the time the experts, the people who are supposed to be able to tell you what to do, will tell you that you can't do something even when you know you can. And a lot of the time it's your friends ... who tell you you can do it.

Mark Zuckerberg

#8. The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously.

Iain M. Banks

#9. You become very known for being someone's girlfriend, and all of a sudden there's all this hype and buzz for all the wrong reasons.

Sienna Miller

#10. Alamogordo and worked his two-year service stripping down ancient solar electricity stations from the bad old days before fusion.

James S.A. Corey

#11. Just as a lamp waved in darkness creates a figure of light in the air, which remains for as long as the lamp repeats its motion exactly, so the universe retains its shape by repetition: the universe is Time's body.

John Crowley

#12. In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill rather than endure the panic.

Dean Keith Simonton

#13. Empirical research has shown that quality tends to be the consequence of quantity when it comes to creativity ... Those who produce more masterworks also produce more rubbish.

Dean Keith Simonton

#14. Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.

Steve Martin

#15. When was the last good kiss you had?

John Green

#16. Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement and who then make contributions to that field that are considered by peers to be both original and highly exemplary.

Dean Keith Simonton