Presciently Quotes

#1. I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.

Elizabeth Lesser

#2. Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought. He was right. Political films can be successful.

Charlton Heston

#3. As the American Library Association presciently concluded in their 1989 report Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, students must be taught to play an active role in knowing, identifying, finding, evaluating, organizing, and using information.

Daniel J. Levitin

#4. Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.

Pankaj Mishra

#5. Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury ...

Carol Anshaw

#6. Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

Richard Hell

#7. When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

Placido Domingo

#8. The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

David Hockney

#9. We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved.

Maurice Strong

#10. Technically, the better McDonald's does, the better Virgin Active's chances of acquiring a new client.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#11. Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the sun,

Jules Verne

#12. I might not have superpowers, but I know how to knee a guy in the nuts.

Tera Lynn Childs

#13. Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at. I was a certain way with the cameraman, a certain way with the makeup lady - a normal, routine environment.

Jason Bateman

#14. Where the kids routinely outscored the apes was in tasks that involved reading social cues.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#15. The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

C. G. Jung

#16. An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

Lemony Snicket

#17. I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director needs a crew - the writer, the producer, etcetera - and to have that, he needs money.

Roger Corman