Albert J. Nock Quotes

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

Albert J. Nock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 13, 1870 - August 19, 1945

Topics

ScienceManStepLettersUnderstand

I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.

Jill Scott

TimeWorldPlacesSameShoulders

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

Michael Ignatieff

PeaceThinkMadeI ThinkCould

For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.

Anand Gopal

ReputationMoreFarmersYearsBeing

Cyclists are insane. You're going through the Alps, climbing up mountains. There's this circus around them. They're so tough. When they have a day off, they go out and cycle 100 miles.

Stephen Frears

DayMountainsToughYouGoCircus

To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground.

Roger Federer

LifeFunnyGoodRedPeopleWeird

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

LifeMeControlGivingLossPrivacy

Every race is different. If you come down the home straight neck and neck, the crowd cheering for you can decide the race.

Mo Farah

HomeYouDownRaceDecideNeck

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

Lucinda Williams

FeelSomeoneTogethernessEveryone

I'm always really comfortable writing strong, smart ladies. That's kind of my bailiwick.

Chris Roberson

SmartWritingStrongKindAlways

God is no respecter of persons or causes.

Clementa C. Pinckney

GodCausesPersons

In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean left or you lean right, you're going to lose the voice. Yet you yourself become animated when you're doing the part. So you'll see a lot of flailing arms, but a very still face.

Brendan Dooling

YourselfVoiceFaceDoingYouLose

For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

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