Theory That Quotes

#1. I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

LeRoy Neiman

#2. Dieter had a theory that was pure Faust. Thought alone was valueless. You must act for thought to become effective. He used to say that the greatest mistake man ever made was to distinguish between the mind and the body: an order does not exist if it is not obeyed.

John Le Carre

#3. I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

Joyce Grenfell

#4. Now, if you believe that the universe is not arbitrary, but is governed by definite laws, you ultimately have to combine the partial theories into a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe.

Stephen Hawking

#5. I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination.

Alan Moore

#6. I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

Danny Boyle

#7. String theory is not the only theory that can accommodate extra dimensions, but it certainly is the one that really demands and requires it.

Brian Greene

#8. Theory of public goods. Theory that if I take you euro (as an elected state government) and give fifty cents back... you will be happier and I will be satisfied.

Radovan Kavicky

#9. You already said that," Sabine said, folding the wrapper back from her burger. "You said it a lot, actually. Which supports my theory that apologies are basically pointless. They don't fix anything, right? That's why I rarely bother.

Rachel Vincent

#10. Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

Adolf Hitler

#11. In our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)

Milan Kundera

#12. I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because it's so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.

Simon Mawer

#13. I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.

George Soros

#14. According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS ... The DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving up another glass of wine is the way to help a drunk, is scheduled to vote on December 1 to legalize same sex marriage in America's capital city.

Star Parker

#15. There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already bends over backward to accommodate men, so why perfect the art of magickally shaping it?

Thomm Quackenbush

#16. I have no idea who coined the term 'the New Journalism,' or when it was coined. I have never even liked the term. Any movement, group, party, program, philosophy or theory that goes under a name with 'new' in it is just begging for trouble, of course.

Tom Wolfe

#17. Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

Richard Dawkins

#18. For a long time Eliot had had the theory that in Janet's mind everybody was as judgmental of her as she was of them, and if that was true then the world must be a pretty scary place for her.

Lev Grossman

#19. Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten - well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed

David Levithan

#20. I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Billy Joel

#21. When I was at primary school, we had this theory that if you ate an egg, it meant you'd get pregnant and give birth to a chicken or another egg. It was something we dared together. I avoided eggs for years, but now they're my favourite food.

Erin O'Connor

#22. There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.

Dan Aykroyd

#23. There's a theory that when two people form a relationship, they form a third spiritual entity. When the relationship dies, that entity dies. Grief is a completely natural response, and it's almost impossible to move on if you don't allow yourself to experience it.

Lani Diane Rich

#24. I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

Nora Ephron

#25. Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

Helen Fielding

#26. I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know where you get the impetus and response to what's before your eyes.

Walker Evans

#27. I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for. He didn't find it, but we think we're hot on the trail.

Brian Greene

#28. Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been justified by serious economic trouble.

Kenneth Fisher

#29. Actually, the idea of economic man is an efficient way of excluding women. We have historically allocated women certain activities and said that she must do them because she is a woman. Then we create an economic theory that states that these activities have no economic meaning.

Katrine Marcal

#30. The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.

Steven Pinker

#31. I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.

John Rawls

#32. Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

Margaret Mead

#33. Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

Kenneth Rogoff

#34. Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bruno Latour

#35. She had a theory that you should try to fill your life with people with wrinkles next to their eyes because it means they've got it right; they've lived and laughed ...

Susan Fletcher

#36. I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

Jeanette Winterson

#37. Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism

Robert E. Ornstein

#38. I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#39. I have never liked the theory that poltergeists only come into houses where there are children, because I think it is simply too much for any one house to have poltergeists and children. - "The Ghosts of Loiret

Ruth Franklin

#40. For a long while, Norby had harbored a theory that places acted like dry-cell batteries, storing remnants of the lives of everyone who had ever passed through them.

Craig Lancaster

#41. E pur si muove.
(Albeit It does move.)
[What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.]

Galileo Galilei

#42. It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.

Rudy Rucker

#43. The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.

C.S. Lewis

#44. If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

Noam Chomsky

#45. I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

Tana French

#46. subscribed to the theory that life consisted of a long string of miseries, tolerated only because the alternative was worse.

Amy Fecteau

#47. I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

Hale Irwin

#48. She had heard the panspermia theory before but didn't know its name. The theory that a meteorite splashed into the primordial soup, bringing the first seeds of microbial life to earth.

Dan Brown

#49. There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

Nick Kroll

#50. Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

Taylor Swift

#51. There is another theory that states: This has already happened ...

Douglas Adams

#52. If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y

H.L. Mencken

#53. No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove it.

Karl Popper

#54. Have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

Erin Morgenstern

#55. A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.

Joan Robinson

#56. Since there are Indian movies, of necessity there is an Indian film theory that informs Indian scholars. However, that theory remains to be formulated.

Gaston Roberge

#57. We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.

Anthony Trollope

#58. I've got a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise. A beastly thing, compromise, but it steals upon you as you near middle age.

Agatha Christie

#59. For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

Ernest Mandel

#60. Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#61. It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has completely corrupted public policy making in most of the developed world. It confronts all the dubious claims that the warmists have put out there.

Nick Minchin

#62. Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#63. My brother and I have always had this theory that, as stupid as it sounds, in video games, there is a certain hand-eye coordination and a thought process that you can learn.

Landon Donovan

#64. You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.

Jordan Peele

#65. Physicists are interested in measuring neutrino properties because they tell us about the structure of the Standard Model, the well-tested theory that describes matter's most basic elements and interactions.

Lisa Randall

#66. Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on national television. Now, that's really a remarkable theory, that it is defamation to show people what he said on national TV. I think the voters are smarter than that.

Ted Cruz

#67. It is Jill's theory that in every life there is one dog.Other dogs may come and go, but there is one grande affaire. I feel that is probably right and yet it worries me, for it might mean that I am a fickle person. For I seem able to love deeply just the dog I am looking at.

Gladys Taber

#68. I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

Veronica Roth

#69. In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.

Richard Flanagan

#70. We need a critical theory that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals - in its market-driven, all, consuming consumerist idolatries.

Carl R. Trueman

#71. It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

Plato

#72. Librarians. He'd never met one with a bad memory. He had a theory that words stuck to their minds like flies to flypaper.

Cornelia Funke

#73. Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain.

Steve Erickson

#74. I was pretty sure the only possible explanation would involve parallel world theory. That sounded fun!

Otaro Maijo

#75. I have a theory that sometimes people think they need to talk as much as possible, almost as if talking more equates to knowing more.

Mary Mihalic

#76. We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

James Jeans

#77. All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a theory that explains things and he builds atop that theory, finding all the right answers ... only the basic theory is wrong. But that's the last thing he will want to admit.

Louis L'Amour

#78. Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.

Ted Cruz

#79. The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#80. It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed

John Lithgow

#81. It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

Albert Einstein

#82. The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

Nancy Pearcey

#83. I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.

Caitlin Rose

#84. There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

Tim Robbins

#85. I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.

Kate Bush

#86. Should Cassandra initiate us, Sibyl? Matt asked, his eyes narrowed like he was testing a dangerous theory that could blow up in his face.

Josephine Angelini

#87. Incredibly, whenever I have proposed the theory that half of government workers could be cut, current and former federal employees I know have all agreed.

Ronald Kessler

#88. She sat in her chair and looked around the room. What should she take with her? The antique chatrang board her predecessor had given her? Her mummified baby alligator, which she had on the theory that every sorcerer's lair should have a mummified reptile of some kind?

Tim Pratt

#89. Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for a long time, the baby will be more attached to you.

Sarah Ruhl

#90. Paul Erdos has a theory that God has a book containing all the theorems of mathematics with their absolutely most beautiful proofs, and when he wants to express particular appreciation of a proof he exclaims, "This is from the book!"

Ross Honsberger

#91. It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

Stephen Hawking

#92. I then swept the crumbs into my palm and opened one of the empty drawers and poured them in. I was working on the theory that if I collected enough crumbs, eventually I could make my own Twix. It's good to have a purpose in life.

Colin Bateman

#93. The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with ... the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

George Bernard Shaw

#94. I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.

Eric Bana

#95. I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

Steve Earle

#96. I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his peculiar delight will find him, however obscure they or he may be.

Vincent Starrett

#97. Isn't that what intimacy so often is? Supposing you understand, conveying that you do, because you feel in theory that you could understand, and you want to, and yet secretly you don't?

Rachel Kushner

#98. I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

Dana Reinhardt

#99. It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.

Stieg Larsson

#100. There's a theory that if we don't have the right words in our vocabularies, we can't even see the things that are right in front of our faces. If we can't describe our reality accurately, we can't see it. Not the other way around.

Paolo Bacigalupi