Bernard Katz Quotes

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

Bernard Katz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: March 26, 1911 - April 20, 2003

Topics

PowerReligionCareRememberLong

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

Joanne Froggatt

StoryKnowAlwaysSeePiecesPeriod

I famously tasted shark fin soup many, many years ago before we understood exactly what was going on with the harvesting of sharks. I've consequently come out against it. I make personal choices in my life and stand behind them.

Andrew Zimmern

LifeSoupChoicesStandMy LifeOut

I've been in thousands of conversations dripping with misogyny. I've initiated many of those conversations myself. From my fraternity roots to my bachelor days in New York, I know I have not always shown up in ways that I am proud of.

Andy Dunn

MyselfI AmNew YorkRootsProud

I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.

John Oliver

RelaxFindProblematicVacations

My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful.

Andy Serkis

YourselfPerformanceEnergyMaskYou

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

John Polkinghorne

GodGreatSpeakProblemKnowHuman

I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

Smedley Butler

LightAmericanHouseSugarWayOil

I think everyone mentions Bob Dylan, but he's someone I just admire so much as a songwriter. I think people write songs, and then there's Bob Dylan songs. He's one step ahead of just everybody else.

Tom Odell

StepPeopleThinkSomeoneAdmire

My son graduated high school and went to Haiti to work for his dad's organization and then extended his stay. It's incredible what he's doing.

Robin Wright

WorkSonSchoolOrganizationDoing

For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.

Mary Hunter Austin

GodWorldAirOne ThingAnywhere

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

Luke Mably

MindSomeoneEnjoyActingWhyElse

Style matters, but the real force of writing is ideas, not style.

Douglas Brunt

StyleIdeasWritingMattersReal

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