Thoretical Quotes

#1. Sure, I've always been into the Big Bang theory of passion, but as something thoretical, something that happens in books that you can close and put back on a shelf, something that I might secretly want bad but can't imagine ever happening to me.

Jandy Nelson

#2. Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we [filmmakers] made.

Tom Hanks

#3. The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.

Thomas Merton

#5. The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs ... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

Mark Twain

#6. I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

Romola Garai

#7. The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread out all its rocks and trees and flowers and vulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.

Thomas Chalmers

#8. Biologists have an adolescent fascination with sex. Like teenagers they are embarrassed by the subject because of their ignorance.

Steve Jones