George Berkeley Quotes

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

George Berkeley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: March 12, 1685 - January 14, 1753

Topics

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Once, I lived in an apartment with a skylight in the bathroom. Every winter, it would snow through the skyline, but we got a discount because of it.

Jim Parsons

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I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

LifeMyselfTelevisionActorLucky

The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn't true.

Jeremy Grantham

TimePeopleBrainBelieveWantTrue

I'm not going to put myself in a box.

Andra Day

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People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case.

Jeffrey C. Hall

PeopleThinkMiraclesMysterious

I have a hard time sometimes watching my own work.

Stella Maeve

WorkTimeSometimesMy OwnWatching

Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

Roy Wood

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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.

Dick Cavett

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Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Christopher Morley

ManPlumbingAssemblyIngenious

I have one rave 'New York Times' review framed next to a flop 'Los Angeles Times' review. And it's for the same show. These people watched the same show. That's what happens. They love it, they hate it.

Bruce Vilanch

LoveHateNew YorkPeopleNewSame

Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.

Shawn Johnson

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I once did a flip-flop joke in San Diego, and I got booed... but it's all in good fun.

Sebastian Maniscalco

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