Denis Diderot Quotes

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Denis Diderot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 5, 1713 - July 31, 1784

Topics

NatureReflectionCreativeThreeSee

'Graveminder' is about a mortician, a young woman with commitment issues, a dead teenager, and a town called Claysville where the dead don't always stay dead.

Melissa Marr

CommitmentWomanYoungDeadAlways

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

Max Beckmann

WorkRealityWantShowBehindIdea

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

Tori Amos

MeControlWillHandBendCompany

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

Rutger Hauer

GoodCharacterHeroMeBadPlay

Just go out there and do what you have to do.

Martina Navratilova

YouGoOutJust

You can't expect to score lots of goals in every game; football isn't like that.

Luka Modric

GoalsFootballGameYouExpectLike

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

Jonathan Winters

ComedyObservationCommonPaintings

I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog biscuits and go upstairs. By the time I've consumed my Diet Coke and had a quick run through the morning email and Twitter feed, I will probably be compos mentis enough to work.

Diana Gabaldon

WorkDogMorningTimeDietEnough

I have kids. I can't hardly watch an afternoon football game with them without having to turn off the TV during the commercials. It's too much. I don't know when violence was deemed such a cinematic thing.

Derek Cianfrance

FootballGameViolenceToo MuchKnow

People will judge you according to your own convictions.

Dexter Scott King

PeopleJudgeYouWillOwnYour

Dieting is becoming easier and easier for me because I'm finding out things that I love.

Chrissy Teigen

LoveMeFindingOutThingsBecoming

One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.

Brian Greene

ScienceMathematicsWorldThreeSee

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