Doe Quotes
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?
The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.
It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
I have had no contacts or collusions with the Russians. And my exchange with Guccifer 2, based on the content and the timing, most certainly does not constitute collusion.
I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.
A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.
Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.
One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.
How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one
All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.
Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.
My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair.
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.
How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.
A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.
Happiness does not depend on the size or content of a goal, but on the strength of the desire to have it.
People don't want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I couldn't do what Gaga does. They can't do what I do.
Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
The fact there is no route-map to utopia does not mean that there are no routes to more accessible destinations.
A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.
You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.
Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.
But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.