Top 100 Fuller Quotes
#2. The problem with most people," Dad said once, not necessarily implying that I counted as most people, but not discounting the possibility either, "is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live.
Alexandra Fuller
#3. If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Thomas Fuller
#4. Everyone knows you only want to look at the sinkhole because you love a good disaster. Get back to work, Fuller. I don't pay you for your looks.
Meg Cabot
#5. I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin.
Kurt Fuller
#6. Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words 'to father' have such a different meaning from the words 'to mother'.
Claire Fuller
#7. Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants.
John Cage
#8. All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.
Margaret Fuller
#10. Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#11. I have no clue what a 'hottie' is. To think of myself in those terms is absurd.
Drew Fuller
#12. We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to "make it" rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#13. Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
Tabitha Soren
#14. He made a careful rehearsal of some of their bits of talk
why had she said this? what had she meant by that? why had she done the other? He dwelt on these matters with an absorbed speculation, and with a young man of Ogden's temperament speculation was but the first step on the way to love.
Henry Blake Fuller
#16. I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.
Kurt Fuller
#17. The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.
Margaret Fuller
#21. If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.
Margaret Fuller
#22. A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#23. The more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.
John Calvin
#24. I started just naturally turning into a nicer person, and it actually helped broaden and lengthen my career.
Kurt Fuller
#25. Health is just not valued until illness comes.
Thomas Fuller
#26. It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.
Roy Fuller
#27. My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident.
Michael Jackson
#28. Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
Margaret Fuller
#29. I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.
Kurt Fuller
#30. The thing about love is one can never define it exactly. And as much of a mystery as that is and as familiar it is when we acknowledge it, words just aren't enough. So we find ourselves scratching the walls while our hair is falling out. Then we can't live without it. We become addicts.
Kevin Fuller
#31. Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#32. We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.
Samuel Fuller
#34. What did I know about the fifty-five (give or take) countries of Africa? I carried within me one deep personal thread of one small part of it, and it had changed and colored everything,
Alexandra Fuller
#35. At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.
Thomas Hughes
#36. Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days.
Dana Fuller Ross
#37. You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.
Alexandra Fuller
#39. It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Thomas Fuller
#40. If we dump all the machinery and take the knowledge we have in the ocean within six months humanity will die. If we dump all the politician all around the world in the ocean everything will go along very nicely.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#41. For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#42. Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#44. Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!
Marianne Williamson
#45. Every choice we make affects the other. It always has ... We share our choices and our burdens. But that way neither of us has to carry the weight alone - You have never been alone.
Olivia Fuller
#46. I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.
Millard Fuller
#47. When I'm at home and I'm preparing my own food, it's all gluten-free, or fish and it's healthy, but when I go to someone else's house, I'll eat what they put in front of me because I don't want to be an asshole.
Bryan Fuller
#48. The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation.
Melville Fuller
#50. Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Thomas Fuller
#51. Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller
#53. It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.
Kurt Fuller
#54. When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#55. To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.
Kurt Fuller
#56. There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Thomas Fuller
#57. How much does your building weigh?
A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#58. I recognize women are under a lot more stress today. The things you consider stress are also the blessings in your life.
Bonnie Fuller
#59. Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
Thomas Fuller
#60. Get ready the greatest new educational facility at the approximate dynamic population center of the North American continent
R. Buckminster Fuller
#61. Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#62. I'm not curing cancer. I'm not saving lives. It's my job. I'm an actor. It's a good, fun job. People enjoy it, but there are many other people who are doing so many things that are more worthwhile. I just don't see anything that special about it. I see it as entertaining.
Kurt Fuller
#63. Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Margaret Fuller
#64. Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
Thomas Fuller
#65. I have nine children ... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.
Melville Fuller
#69. Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind
and adequately supply all the world's energy needs
R. Buckminster Fuller
#70. It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#71. No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.
Margaret Fuller
#72. There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.
Samuel Fuller
#74. (1) I have told you more than I know about osteoporosis. (2) What I have told you is subject to change without notice. (3) I hope I raised more questions than I have given answers. (4) In any case, as usual, a lot more work is necessary.
Fuller Albright
#75. Who am I to judge another when I myself walk as an imperfect man.
John Doc Fuller
#77. I went to school to be a psychiatrist. That's where I was going until I had a teacher-student conference with one of my teachers and there were film school pamphlets, and he said, "You don't belong here. Get out. Go to film school."
Bryan Fuller
#78. He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
Thomas Fuller
#79. The further art advances the closer it approaches science, the further science advances the closer it approaches art.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#80. If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.
Eric Liu
#81. The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand
R. Buckminster Fuller
#82. I also think you have less separation if you are fuller. If you go to the gym and pump your arms up they are bigger because of the blood volume, the fullness. But the separation is not so defined.
Dorian Yates
#84. Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.
Katori Hall
#85. Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#86. When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.
Edmund Fuller
#87. I like working, and my brain sort of keeps going whether I like it or not.
Bryan Fuller
#88. Be the business never so painful you may have done it for money
Thomas Fuller
#89. I started out old, but I have to say that I've been very lucky to work consistently since I started. I've really never been out of work.
Kurt Fuller
#90. Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#91. That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.
Wallace D. Wattles
#92. Universe to each must be
All that is, including me.
Environment in turn must be
All that is, excepting me.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#93. American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#94. It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
Margaret Fuller
#96. But the pathos and the gift of life is that we cannot know which will be our defining heartbreak, or our most victorious joy.
Alexandra Fuller
#98. For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.
Millard Fuller
#99. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction.
Michael Pollan
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