Sam Harris Quotes

The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.

Sam Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 9, 1967

Topics

MomentExperienceValueSuffering

When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.

Jo Brand

PeopleMeYouLookCryGenuine

It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

TimeMeTheatreYearYouLook

I went on a cross-country trip with three buddies to find out what our generation is about. I bought a video camera, started shooting, learned as I went, and ended up with 'Our Time,' a feature-length documentary about what it's like to be young in America. I was hooked.

Matthew Heineman

TimeGenerationAmericaCameraFind

I'm not a writer.

Matthew Mercer

Writer

If the main character's not in jeopardy - physical, psychological, emotional, whatever - then you don't have any tension, and you don't have a story.

Stephen Graham Jones

CharacterStoryYouEmotionalMain

They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.

Roland Joffe

TimeMeStoryThoughtSillyFirst

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

Roy Romer

KnowledgeComputersThinkDoingWill

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Miguel de Cervantes

SuccessImpossibleOrderMustAbsurd

I don't divide my reading into demographic categories, any more than I'd divide my friends into groups along ethnic or sexual lines. The thing I look for most is a sense of literary rawness - bareback fiction, if you will.

Christopher Fowler

ReadingFriendsYouLookWillMore

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

Pharrell Williams

HangJustLikeBookstoresBrowse

I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.

Penelope Cruz

LifeTimeMyselfI AmYoungKind

Years ago, when I first started wearing hair extensions, I would get mail from young girls, or young girls would come up to me and they would say, 'Tyra you have the most beautiful hair, like I could never grow hair like that!' And I would say 'Child, this is a weave!'

Tyra Banks

BeautifulChildMeHairGrowYou

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