Theorising Quotes

#1. You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

Adrian Edmondson

#2. No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising.

Hilary Kornblith

#3. But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

Talcott Parsons

#4. The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

Takeshi Kitano

#5. I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

Isaac Marion

#6. There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.

Carl Sagan

#7. What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do

James Patterson

#8. If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

Elon Musk

#9. Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

Hope Mirrlees

#10. win some, learn some..

K

#11. It was mainly a growing farm, although we did have chickens and a few animals, but I did help to some degree with that. I have to say that it was not my favorite association.I did what I was asked to do.

Paul Smith

#12. Posthumous retention of copyright is really a gangrenous foot-in-the-door for the coming zombie apocalypse. And who in tarnation really wants that?

Pansy Schneider-Horst

#13. One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently.

Richard Norton Smith

#14. Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don't invite either into your mind.

Don Roff

#15. Here's the thing: You rescue us every day in small, quiet ways, so why not in this way? Let us into your mystery, tell us how you would like to be loved, show us how to see you, really see you.

Chris Abani

#16. She doesn't realize it, but she steers others in a good direction.

Noriko Ogiwara