Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Parkinson

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Michael Eklund

If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.

Michael Eisner

Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.

Ralph Lauren

When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view-I am not designing clothes, I'm creating a world.

James Franco

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

Jacques Lipchitz

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

Jacques Monod

Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by the law of increasing entropy, that is to say, the second law of thermodynamics. This is far more than a mere comparison: the second law is founded upon considerations identical to those which establish the irreversibility of evolution. Indeed, it is legitimate to view the irreversibility of evolution as an expression of the second law in the biosphere.

Jacques Ellul

Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category of science and only a short period of time

Henry A. Kissinger

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

Henry A. Kissinger

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.

Helen Fisher

Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

Helen Fisher

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

Henry Giroux

Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American society that any form of critique which calls official power into question is somehow un-American. This absurd attempt to define any critique of official power as unpatriotic has a chilling effect on faculty, especially when such views and the names of the people to whom they are ascribed are widely disseminated in right-wing and dominant media outlets.

Pat Oliphant

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

Paula Abdul

The steeper the mountain the harder the climb the better the view from the finish line ;)

Martin Rees

We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't set up this debate as 'religion v science'; instead we should strive for peaceful coexistence with at least the less dogmatic strands of mainstream religions, which number many excellent scientists among their adherents.

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

John Tukey

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

John Turner

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

John Sununu

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

John Rawls

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

James Hutton

When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole presents a machine of a peculiar construction by which it is adapted to a certain end. We perceive a fabric, erected in wisdom, to obtain a purpose worthy of the power that is apparent in the production of it.

James Richardson

The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time.

James Ransone

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places Ive been.

James Fallows

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

Lamar S. Smith

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in comparison with which there can be no question whatever of mischief due to sin, for the merely gradual and imperfect unfolding of the power of the God-consciousness is one of the necessary conditions of the human stage of existence.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Friedrich Engels

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Friedrich August von Hayek

By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.