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George Santayana Quotes

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

George Santayana

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: spanish
Birth: December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952

Topics

Reflection Free Belong Middle Proper

I don't like when actors go around and talk a ton about how they approach their roles, because it's a little like pulling the curtain back on Oz, for me.

Jim Parrack

Me Back Go Talk Little Because

We filmed 'Labyrinth' in South Africa for two and a half months and it was just the most unbelievable experience. Lots of sword fighting, mud in hair and lots of weeping! It's very different from 'Downton' because I was going to work and having mud put in my hair - it's the other extreme of the look!

Jessica Brown Findlay

Work Experience Hair Fighting Look

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

Steven Wright

Thinking Fast Go Left Indy Watched

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

Robert Zemeckis

Television Watch Documentaries

You cannot sit quiet while the KKK and other white supremacist groups rear their ugly heads.

Ron Stallworth

Ugly You White Quiet Sit Cannot

It is something you can't predict, and it is the huge sadness in your life, losing a child.

Mary Berry

Life Losing Child Sadness You Your

If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.

Mary Gaitskill

Vision Writing Language Speech Way

I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.

Joy Fielding

Love Bird Happy Me Fly Sometimes

I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.

Johnny Gimble

Work Good Music Depression Money

I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.

Cheryl Mills

Responsibility Government Think Honor

I don't exactly fit well in leather pants, so I don't rock that look. I lost my hair a long time ago, so no hair-metal look, either. I had hair down to my belly button at one point, but I think that was the '90s.

Brian Posehn

Time Hair Think Long Look Down

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

Pink

Problem Suicide Person Know Single