Appear Quotes - page 49

I think we've debunked the myth of talent. It doesn't appear that there's anything like a music gene or center in the brain that Stevie Wonder has that nobody else has. (Daniel Levitin)
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic. View quote
Steve Jobs
Osama bin Laden's organization has spun out from him and is now probably independent of him. There will be others who will appear and reappear. This is why we need a much more precise, a much more defined, a much more patiently constructed campaign, as well as one that surveys not just the terrorists' presence but the root causes of terrorism, which are ascertainable. View quote
Edward Said
I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts. View quote
Susan Cain
Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice. View quote
Alan Moore
If I'm going to appear in front of people I like to look my best. View quote
Bill Nighy
[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that "each moment of life ought to be motivated." Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends. View quote
Georges Bataille
[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that "each moment of life ought to be motivated.”. View quote
Georges Bataille
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition. View quote
William Wilberforce
Let a defect, which is possibly but small, appear undisguised. A fault concealed is presumed to be great. View quote
Martial
How easie is it to call Rogue and Villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a Man appear a Fool, a Blockhead, or a Knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! (John Dryden)
We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public. View quote
Lauryn Hill
I don't want my image to appear in the mass media, since it would detract from the project. View quote
Gustav Metzger
It is something gained when the colored man in any form can appear before a white audience. View quote
Frederick Douglass
The friendship of high and sanctified spirits loses nothing by death but its alloy; failings disappear, and the virtues of those whose faces we shall behold no more appear greater and more sacred when beheld through the shades of the sepulchre. View quote
Robert Hall
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing. View quote
Steve Carell
All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying. View quote
Tom Hanks
The friends of humanity will deprecate War, wheresoever it may appear; and we have experience enough of its evils, in this country, to know, that it should not be wantonly or unnecessarily entered upon. View quote
George Washington
(Picture of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones appear) This week, the California Raisins announced plans for a new world tour. View quote
Amy Poehler
When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound. (Daniel Kahneman)
We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect. View quote
Shirley Manson
Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
When I say gesture, my gesture, I mean what my mark is... It is a struggle for me to both discard and retain what is gestural and personal, Signature....'Gesture' must appear out of necessity, not habit. View quote
Helen Frankenthaler
If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith