Zetetic Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics. — Jim Woodring

An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.

('On the Extraordinary: An Attempt at Clarification", Zetetic Scholar, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 11, 1978) — Marcello Truzzi

For one can never really be helped by another; one must find the strength to help oneself. — Irvin D. Yalom

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it. — Patrick Macnee

Following Korzybski , I put things in probabilities, not absolutes ... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics , to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics , ideology , jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory . — Robert Anton Wilson

When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player. — Joe Mauer

The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic. — Adam Gopnik

Concepts become forces when they resist one another — Johann Friedrich Herbart

I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts. — Bill Nighy

The Taj, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Cracao Basilica and Polish church are some monuments that hold a special place in my memory. — Shaan

While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yeah. He looked like a cat who'd found his favorite mouse wounded or something. It was eerie. And he started to make fun of her, like all cruel and stuff. The things he said to her were horrible and he was only playing with her. She didn't try to defend herself. I guess Mason Kade really hates that girl, and the way he ripped into her. It was something else."
"He enjoyed it." Adam's voice was quiet.
I looked over and held his gaze. Something dark was in their depths.
He spoke again, "It was like an animal that was playing with its kill before they fully killed it. That's what he was doing with her. I've never seen anything like it before. — Tijan