Richard Whately Quotes

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Richard Whately

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 1, 1787 - October 8, 1863

Topics

MemoryCuriosityParentAttention

I know from another pulsar astronomer who won the Nobel that you get no peace. You're asked about every subject under the sun. It quite wrecks your life.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

LifePeaceSunYouKnowGet

My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my father playing Torvald.

John Lithgow

FatherChildrenHouseOldFirst

Change does happen, you know?

John Wesley Shipp

ChangeYouKnowHappenDoes

I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.

Aminatta Forna

DayDeskFacebookStayChecking

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

Stephen Carter

SomeoneYouExecutionSelf-Defense

The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely - it's putting magazines out of business. It's put big companies into completely reinventing their strategies.

Steve Aoki

BusinessMoneySocial MediaMedia

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

Stephen Ambrose

EmotionsPassionateResignationEven

Showbusiness is such a mad profession, I find commerce a wonderful outlet for keeping me sane.

Roger Moore

MeFindMadWonderfulSaneCommerce

I worked on heads-up displays, virtual-reality technology, and holographic displays - all sorts of really cool technology.

Mary Lou Jepsen

TechnologyCoolReallyWorked

I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.

Chick Corea

MusicCultureLearnDoingEnough

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

Ally Condie

PastTeenMeWorldPlaceBeing

'The New Yorker' was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I'd more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions - not much.

Alice Munro

ExperienceSeriousNewEditingFirst

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