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“Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange.”

People Book Ideas Enough Age Courses Strange Perception Silly Old Fashioned

Author:Prince Philip

“Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.”

People Two Different Enough Realizing Love Is Emotion Strange Lucky Lust Evolve Different Things Togetherness Transient Two Different Things

Author:Randeep Hooda

“The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.”

Source: Shakespeare, With Introductory Matter on Poetry, The Drama, and The Stage by S.T. Coleridge: Coleridge’s Essays and Lectures on Shakespeare and Other Old Poets and Dramatists

“Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the joy of being worn down and tired out with laughter, is a success to be won by no man save in virtue of a rare staying-power. Laughter becomes extreme only if it be consecutive. There must be no pauses for recovery. Touch-and-go humour, however happy, is not enough. The jester must be able to grapple his theme and hang on to it, twisting it this way and that, and making it yield magically all manner of strange and precious things.”

Source: And Even Now

“if I hadn't gone to a private Christian school, I'd never have built up enough animosity to want to have started a band. And now that I have one, the fact that they are giving me such resistance and publicity, they have made me far bigger than they'd ever have wanted me to have become. So I guess in a strange way the Christians have influenced me the most.”

Ifs Way Want Giving Made Enough Facts Wanted School Christian Gone Strange Band Built Bigger Resistance Publicity Animosity Christian Schools

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.”

Ifs Enough Feelings Happens Events Strange Infinite Boundaries Norm Abnormal Anything Can Happen No Boundaries

Book:Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987

Source: Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987

“Eternal God, lead me now out of the familiar setting of my doubts and fears, beyond my pride and my need to be secure into a strange and graceful ease with my true proportions and with yours; that in boundless silence I may grow strong enough to endure and flexible enough to share your grace.”

Source: Guerrillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle

“I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.”

Children Enough Seems Nations Parent Attention Strange Caught Manners Echoes Elders Precocious

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?”

Should Littles Doe Enough Suffering Behinds Strange Flower My Friends Fruit Yield Decay Visionaries Passing Away Flower Life

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)

“Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.”

Ifs Believe Enough Natural Atheism Strange Heresy

Book:Mystery at Geneva

Source: Mystery at Geneva

“Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will need something more. He will need to overcome his disgust long enough to ponder the roots of this strange and puzzling phenomenon.”

Needs Writing Long Enough Strong Century Honest Strange Intellectual Europe Roots Overcoming Phenomenon Stomach Disgusting Twentieth Century Pondering Puzzling

Author:Mark Lilla

“What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and poetic rationalism, Brezsny weaves a yarn crazy enough to be true and real enough to subvert the literalist virus of cynicism now immobilizing the collective mindscape.”

Doe Real Enough Term Magic Crazy Feminism Strange Being True Collectives Poetic Cynicism Viruses Rationalism Macho Yarn Old English

Author:Antero Alli

“There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.”

Kind Enough Lost Differences Strange Comfort Teeth Misunderstanding

Author:Faith Sullivan

“Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.”

People Ideas Enough Success Joy Hate Too Much Failing Strange Succeed What You Love Hate People About Success

Book:The Empress of One

Source: The Empress of One

“What you think is fake in your head comes off as not enough on camera, a lot of times. You almost have to overdo it, in this overly, sort of Broadway, large-gestures kind of way to come off as being realistic on camera. It's strange. You almost have to act really fake to come off looking real.”

Thinking Way Kind Real Enough Strange Cameras Fake Realistic Being Real Gestures Broadway

Author:Jack White

“A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.”

Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics

“Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his motherfor rootedness and anchoring. He can count on his father to be just different enough from a mother. Fathers embody a delicious mixture of familiarity and novelty. They are novel without being strange or frightening.”

Different Enough Mother Father Novel Special Strange Baby Excitement Frightening Delicious Infant Mixtures Novelty Familiarity Intriguing Being A Father Rootedness

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness. I have a whole new appreciation of soldiers. I saw myself on screen and thought, 'That body is so not hard enough to be a soldier.'”

I Can Hard Enough Body Levels Saws Strange Hard Work Soldier Appreciation Screens

Author:Richard Armitage

“My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.”

Ifs Reason Enough Used Dies Strange Reason Why Sailor Coffins Earrings Strange Places

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore”

“You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.”

Thinking Feels Enough Strange Behavior Down And Feel Good Gambling Strange Things Dopamine Downers Overloaded

Author:Bill Nye

“I always stayed away from the studio environment as much as possible. But I just wanted to see if I could work in one. It's not easy. Just having an engineer's assistant around is enough for me to be uncomfortable. With more than one person there in the room, it feels strange.”

Ifs Feels Persons Enough Wanted Easy Rooms Environment Strange Studios Uncomfortable If I Could Engineers Assistants

Author:Jack White

“Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?”

“The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.”

Needs Enough Helping Universe Strange Truth Is Odd Wondrous Charlatans

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I was never conscious of filming except for when I was location scouting. In a way, that is the most important part of the entire process - and the most private. I'm so used to doing that alone. Unlike every other part, it's just me, alone, on location.It's very hard to describe what I'm looking for - something that feels both familiar and strange at the same time. It's not enough for it just to be strange or mysterious, it also has to feel very ordinary, very familiar, and very nondescript.”

Way Feels Important Hard Enough Used Process Strange Ordinary Conscious Familiar Mysterious Location Me Alone Scouting

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“[Doctor Strange] is difficult, he's arrogant, but he's kind of brilliant and charming and you'd think, "Yeah, I'd want him on my head if I needed brain surgery." He's good enough to warrant his arrogance and he respects other people but not when he thinks he's right and he'll just do what he deems needs to be done when he knows or feels that he's right and the problem from humility's point of view is that he is right, he's really really good at his job.”

“I have to say that I've reached the state of my career where I quite like not to work. Strange enough, I'm busier than ever. I'm not spending every waking hour beside a telephone waiting for it to ring.”

States Enough Waiting Hours Careers Strange Spending Rings Waking Telephones Busier

Author:Jeremy Irons

“One of the rules that I always follow is that no matter how crazy characters may act, and no matter how absurd or strange their actions may be, that it's justified in the character's mind why they are doing it. Not to get all heady about it, but it's fun for me to test how far I can go with things while still keeping it grounded enough that you believe that the character really believes that what he's doing will get him what he wants. It's a personal challenge to me to see how far I can go with that.”

Mind Believe Enough Character Action Fun Challenges Crazy Strange Absurd Justified

Author:Glenn Howerton

“Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.”

People Ifs Looks I Can Enough Facts Funny Faces Accepting Strange These Days Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery Botox

Author:Guy Pearce

“She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and being the expectations - as if, for a brief phrase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations.”

Ifs Children Enough Certain Felt Attention Strange Serious Expectations Flow Affection Expected Obligation Phrases Phases Detached

Author:John Irving