“I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.” KnowsShouldYearsMayNightNextFoodTheorySixSevenDinnerKitchenConventionsPotatoesSeven YearsDieting Author:Lois Wyse
“Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.” DreamScienceNightReligionSoundReligiousAtheismTheoryEvolutionAtheistDrunkAll NightPhilosophy Of ReligionCreationismTheistScientific TheoryAnti ReligiousReligious PhilosophyPhilosophy And ReligionFunny AtheistAnti AtheistGreatest AtheistBeing DrunkCreationist Author:Isaac Asimov
“Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the intelligentsia, it follows, as the night follows the day, that it is the real world that is wrong and which needs to change.” WorldNeedsRealProblemNightSocialSituationTheoryDefinedReal WorldNeed A ChangeSocial Problems Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.” PlayFeelingsHumorFunnyNightLostTroubleTheoryJokesWindowReliefEmpiresBatsSaturdaySaturday NightRangersMarvellousCelticElationGlasgow Author:Ken Dodd
“I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.” ThinkingWritingYearsKindBookDifferentFeelingsAgeUsedNightCultureChallengesMy OwnInterestingResultsPracticeMiddleTheoryWesternChineseAncestorSurprisingAsianFarmingMiddle AgesRicePeasantsReally InterestingWestern Culture Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I found myself in the changed man theory the other night thinking, "Yeah." I thought, "My god. If we could do this again," but there was nothing specific there. There's just the kind of vague sensation of how I'd like it to go. I allowed myself that gift to think that.” IfsThinkingMenKindNightFoundChangedTheoryYeahSensationsVagueNight Thinking Author:Pierce Brosnan
“There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-paleolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep. That group of nomads, cameleers, sheep and goat herders, farmers, and guerilla fighters lent credibility to the idea, for they snored so thunderously and with such persistent ferocity through the long, cold night that they would've frightened a pride of ravenous lions into scattering like startled mice.” LongIdeasNightSoundSleepGroupsTheoryPrideColdMouthsVulnerableFighterFrightenedLionsFarmersWarningAncestorSheepSubconsciousMiceCavesPersistentCredibilityDefenceGoatsPredatorReflexesNomadFerocitySnoringCold Night Author:Gregory David Roberts
“Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could their mere arrangement produce a noisy, colourful, world in which day followed night and animals generated their own kind? Instead of a world created, cared, for and supervised by supernatural persons, the Epicureans appeared to the theologians to be assigning everything to chance. The latter were appalled by Lucretius's view of religion as cruel and oppressive and by the Epicurean insistence that death is the end of all experience.” WorldKindLittlesPersonsEndsNightChanceAnimalViewsQualityProduceTheoryMereCriticsAbsurdLatterAtomsArrangementsTheologianNoisyInsistenceOntologyColourfulEpicurean Author:Catherine Wilson
“Let's consider: at the time of the Buddha, when he attained enlightenment, according to the old texts, in the first watch of the night, he went through all of his past lifetimes. Then in the second watch of the night, his mind opened still further and encompassed the coming into being and dying and re-coming into being of all beings, everywhere. The third watch of the night, he realized interdependent origination. He realized interdependent origination because he saw it. It wasn't some theory he thought up. He saw it. That was his enlightenment experience. That was why he was a Buddha.” MindFirstsStillsPastNightWatchesSawsDyingTheoryEnlightenmentThirdsLifetimePast Life Author:Tenzin Palmo