Marvin Harris Quotes

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.

Marvin Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 18, 1927 - October 25, 2001

Topics

LightPeopleProblemsFeelQuestions

It always makes me sad when someone comments on how much they love my work- from 15 years ago! I don't want to be just another old school guy that fell off.

Joe Madureira

WorkLoveSadSchoolMeSomeone

I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, 'He kept the paper straight.' And I think about that a lot.

Jill Abramson

ThinkSaidSayPaperSomethingJust

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Matthew Prior

BeautyVirtuePaintDivineJoin

Now I can say I'm a Grand Slam champion, and it sounds really crazy.

Angelique Kerber

CrazyChampionI CanNowSayGrand

Food is an excellent way to do very elegant worldbuilding - the kind that can make a fictional world seem real, like it extends way past the edges of the frame.

Ann Leckie

FoodPastWorldKindWayReal

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

Sophia Loren

PersonShyNeverTriedTheaterVery

When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.

Tom Stoppard

LiveWorldYouRewardWayTry

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

Martina Hingis

ParentsSpeakBornBecauseStill

The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.

Jonathan Mostow

PeopleAmazingStoryCarePhilosophy

Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.

Chris Milk

TechnologyWorldRealityYouHuman

Sometimes I have to pinch myself to think: have I really come this far? Because it is quite different, where I find myself today, from where I started off, in the streets of Waterloo, in the suburbs of Liverpool - that's for sure.

Cherie Blair

TodayMyselfThinkFindSometimes

There is no love without suffering.

Arielle Dombasle

LoveSufferingNo LoveWithout

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