Quotes About Pathetic Fallacy

#1. Trying to think inside Finn's head was like committing what our English master called Pathetic Fallacy, the attribution of human emotions to boulders or trees.

Meg Rosoff

#2. All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

John Ruskin

#3. We both had to reject the concept of life after death, even if we weren't brought up to believe in it, because all human cultures are steeped in the idea.

John Varley

#4. I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.

M.J. Rose

#5. Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Bergen Evans

#6. The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

George Carlin

#7. Your book is smart and beautiful. I want to have its sequels.

Scott Westerfeld

#8. What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

Quentin Crisp

#9. Make thing effective for laughter and hapiness until the day of Judgment - before we make it "Effective" for you Hell ...

A Gentlemen

#10. Business can be a source of progressive change.

Jerry Greenfield

#11. The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when clouds suddenly appear to think.

Charles Baxter

#12. Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up. Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form - the blues.

Billy Gibbons

#13. The Dip creates scarcity; scarcity creates value

Seth Godin

#14. Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

George Santayana