Mortimer Adler Diminish Education Quotes

#1. The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Stephen Gardiner

#2. The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

William Shakespeare

#3. By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism, he was still unable to decide.

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#4. We much be greater than what we suffer

The Amazing Spiderman

#5. Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it.

Hugh Dancy

#6. Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know. ... Pursue the enjoyments which are of good repute; for pleasure attended by honor is the best thing in the world, but pleasure without honor is the worst.

Isocrates

#7. I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything.

Jennifer Connelly

#8. Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions obtained under duress may not be admissible in the court of scientific opinion.

Stephen Stigler

#9. And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?

Diana Gabaldon

#10. When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

Mason Cooley

#11. I'm very proud that our country still produces people like my son, who choose the path less traveled; that knowingly step up to serve, even though our country is tearing itself apart with things like political machinations.

Steve Daines

#12. A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.

Harlan Ellison

#13. Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

Jeff Tweedy

#14. Firmness is great; persistency is greater.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#15. Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.

Idris Elba