Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

Imtiaz Ali

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

Geraldo Rivera

There is no doubt in my view that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee.

Nate Silver

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

Nate Silver

Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin of error was high in a forecasting model that I might put together. Now I view it as perhaps the single most important piece of information that a forecaster provides. When we publish a forecast on FiveThirtyEight, I go to great lengths to document the uncertainty attached to it, even if the uncertainty is sufficiently large that the forecast won't make for punchy headlines.

Nancy Pearcey

The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes.

Nancy Pearcey

Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to “humbleness.” But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.

Ken Wilber

An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more adequate.

Julian Baggini

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.

Julian Baggini

You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.

Julian Baggini

No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and support views that are upheld and defended by many law-abiding citizens, the only way to tackle them is through democratic debate.

Julian Baggini

Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you cannot stay there: you have to take a more objective view, too.

Julian Barnes

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.

Kevin Peter Hall

Even when life appears to be going in circles the view is always changing if you are paying attention.

Kevin Pollak

How do you stand out? Just find your point-of-view.

Kevin Pietersen

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

Kevin O'Leary

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

Ken Thompson

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

Ken Burns

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

Kay Redfield Jamison

From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under treated.

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.

Serge Lang

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.

Serge Lang

To an extent that undermines classical standards of science, some purported scientific results concerning 'HIV' and 'AIDS' have been handled by press releases, by disinformation, by low-quality studies, and by some suppression of information, manipulating the media and people at large. When the official scientific press does not report correctly, or obstructs views dissenting from those of the scientific establishment, it loses credibility and leaves no alternative but to find information elsewhere.

Sigmar Gabriel

My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.

Sidney Poitier

But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries or travel to exotic lands to arrive at a view of our modern situation refracted through the lens of the preindustrial world, or the uncommercialized, unfranchised, perhaps unsanitized-and therefore supposedly more "authentic"-perspective ofthe Third World. Very simply, this is because that "other" world, as alien as if separated by centuries in time, is the one from which I came

Sidney Poitier

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

Shirley Williams

It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.

Sheri S. Tepper

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

Sherri Shepherd

I was taught not to confront and interrupt people, but that's what I do every day on 'The View.'

Seth Lloyd

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.

Seth Lloyd

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.