Nonspecificity Quotes

#1. I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it's all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about nonspecificity. You know, if I shuffled the tracks from 'Inception,' I challenge you to tell me which is which.

Joss Whedon

#2. Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

John Milton

#3. I'm interested in how things are put together, and that's more interesting to me than just regular shows, even though I like The Walking Dead.

Ice Cube

#4. We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.

Jim Valvano

#5. There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

Arthur Dobrin

#6. Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as well.

Watchman Nee

#7. I'm usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they're not cool or something?

Tom Cruise

#8. My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.

Greg Boyle

#9. I can pass days
Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees,
Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,
The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs,
Each tree a natural harp,
each different leaf
A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#10. Bad news is dramatic. It makes good TV. If there's a firefight on the same day that a school opens up, the media will show the firefight even though the school is way more important and will affect the community for much longer.

Sebastian Junger

#11. Thiel, tall, troubled, bewildered

Kristin Cashore

#12. Clients are becoming more global; they're realizing that markets are more interconnected. It's no longer the local regional clients buying the local regional flavors. It's everybody asking for everything.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

#13. When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film.

Alan Price

#14. What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.

Rumi

#15. You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!

Aaron Copland

#16. So I started out for God knows where.
I guess I'll know when I get there.

Tom Petty