Famous Quotes & Sayings

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

Sandra Fluke

It's unfortunate that there's such a disconnect between what's happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what that means for ourselves, our mothers and our wives.

Sandra Fluke

I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.

Sam Hunt

I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

Teller

Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.

Teju Cole

We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.

Steve Earle

I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India.

Seth Shostak

We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching 'Animal Planet.' You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It's mostly about things that have big teeth.

Susanna Moore

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.

Susumu Tonegawa

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

Sidney Blumenthal

Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.

Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.

Sophie Hannah

My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.

Sophie Hannah

I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Sugata Mitra

I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered a place, then there are people who are already in it and people who are not in it.

This was our goal. Anything after this we consider gravy. We'll be able to go out looser than we were tonight.

Mary Walker

This was one of those things that was consistent with the explanation. It was extremely minor.

Larry Kramer

We are going to put our content in every form on every device. We're testing them all.

We are going to need a new concept in order to pay for all the roads we will need.

There are a lot of statements made by different Iranian officials every day that seem to contradict one another.

There are teams that are going to fold, players aren't going to be... look at all of the players who are out of the game now because of contract demands.

There are still vast numbers of documents that are concealed and hidden and declared to be secret and confidential.

There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud.

There are still concerns that profits will slow considerably, and that will hit stocks. But I think there are a number of stocks that are just oversold at these levels.

There are some worries about inflation in the U.S. and the possibility of further rate hikes. Because of those concerns and the slide in U.S. shares, investors in Japan will likely take some profits.

Bo Ryan

There are so many good guards in the conference that if you don't have one like Devin, you'll get buried. He's finding out that he's a natural for the point position.

There are so many different options for consumers that didn't exist 20 years ago.

Hamish Bowles

There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

There are so few real good left-handed or switch-hitters that can operate in the middle of a lineup and be as consistent as Raul. We're thrilled.

There are so few costs that we can control that this is a game of inches.

There are six different things that conflict, ... And some of them are in the same paragraph.