Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes

Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.

Brian Sutton-Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LifeTimeNowToysTaken For Granted

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

Johan Huizinga

PowerAdvertisingJudgmentModern

I am America's number-one fan. I like your food. Especially corn flakes.

Maximilian Schell

FoodI AmAmericaCornFanYour

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

Johnny Cash

LoveMusicHateDeathAppleCountry

I was born in Begusarai in Bihar. Then I spent 10 years in Kolkata and later hopped from Kathmandu to Delhi and, finally, Mumbai.

Sriti Jha

BornMumbaiYearsI Was BornDelhi

Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as a kid. One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

Steven Spielberg

LiveCharacterChallengeRideWorry

A drunk truck driver ran over me. I was in a Volkswagen. It was horrible. It sounds like a cliche, but anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I give a lot of credit to my dad, who was a very strong guy.

Robert David Hall

MeTruckStrongCreditStrongerYou

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

LifeLiveExperienceDeathPresent

The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.

Christopher Moore

FunnyJobDeathStoryProblemDirty

Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research.

Christine Pelosi

ResearchFoxStem Cell ResearchRush

As people are showing the Rift to friends, word will spread that VR can be that good. So I'm not so worried in terms of adoption of the Rift.

Brendan Iribe

GoodPeopleFriendsWillSpreadVR

For me, it is about creating a career - I'm very interested in the sports side and want to continue to do more stuff in that. But ultimately, what I consider myself to be is an actor, and the more variety I can play will continue to round me out.

Brian Baumgartner

SportsMyselfMeCareerI CanPlay

I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?

Peter Tosh

FlowerMusicTreeSchoolMeKey

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