Voltaire Quotes

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Voltaire

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

Topics

PowerSoulThinkingYouAdmit

We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

Jill Tarter

TechnologyIntelligenceKnowOver

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

Jenny Agutter

PatienceRespectDoubtEasyFind

I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.

John Goodman

CreativeBreadNiceNeedSomething

I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence.

Angela Bowie

AgeSchoolIndependenceHolidays

Most theatrical events range in the inaudible. When I went to see 'Mamma Mia,' I thought they were playing it through a megaphone.

Roger Taylor

ThoughtEventsSeeThroughPlaying

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

Ron Glass

CharacterEnjoyTryingFindSayHim

When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seamed stockings and a garment belt underneath, a skirt, high heels, and her hair that she's done the night before, perfectly done eyeliner, lipstick, gloves, perhaps, and all this just to sit on an airplane for a transcontinental flight.

Liz Goldwyn

WomanHairNightFashionAirplane

I started out working on supersymmetry. The theory predicts that for every particle we know about, there will be an additional particle.

Lisa Randall

KnowWillOutTheoryStartedEvery

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Dorothea Brande

WillActComeYourForcesAid

Nature does nothing in vain.

Aristotle

NatureNothingVainDoes

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.

Philippe Petit

AgeCreativitySchoolParentsPeople

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

Potter Stewart

SearchRisePersonOthersGiveMere

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