Quotes About Nomadism

#1. The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.

Amory Lovins

#2. There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

Stephen Carter

#3. In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. We see in order to move; we move in order to see.

William Gibson

#5. Do you know what a tre vie is, Juliana?

Lynn Viehl

#6. Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

Susanna Kaysen

#7. Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

Dean Karnazes

#8. I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.

Michael Shanks

#9. I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.

Paul Giamatti

#10. The polyglot is a linguistic nomad.

Rosi Braidotti

#11. At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.

Andre Previn

#12. In the tribe of Tuareg, men instead of women cover their faces with a blue veil. The tourists who come there call them the 'Blue Men of the Sahara'.

Waheed Ibne Musa

#13. But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.

Harry Connick Jr.

#15. Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.

James C. Scott

#16. You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

Jodi Picoult