Contrary To Popular Belief Quotes - Page 2

• We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal act. Contrary to popular belief, a writer is not Prometheus alone on a hill full of fire. We are very arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all the writers who came before us. We live in the present with all the history, ideas, and soda pop of this time. It all gets mixed up in our writing.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Thinking, Fire

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence.

  Vernon Richards

  Philosophy, Violence, Revolution

  Vernon Richards (1953). “Lessons of the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Contrary to popular belief, the Loch Ness Monster is not a dinosaur -- it's a huge mutant duck, a top researcher claims.... Most mainstream Nessie researchers consider Gluber's duck theory to be horse feathers and are trying to blast it out of the water.

  Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

  Horse, Ducks, Water

  9 Copy quote

• Contrary to popular belief, prosperity is an emotional state that has little to do with your wealth or the state of the economy. You can feel more prosperous in a one-room cottage than most wealthy people feel in a twenty-room mansion. Misers will hoard a lot of money and spendthrifts will spend whatever they have - you don't have to do either to feel prosperous. You may have to give up your secure, high-paying corporate job, however - and grow spiritually in the process.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Jobs, Giving Up, Emotional

  13 Copy quote

• Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.

  George Orwell

  Memories, Past, Years

  1940 Inside theWhale,'My Country Right or Left'.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, People, Belief

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Coffee, Jeans, Fancy

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.

  Bill Gates

  Soccer, Kids, Talking

  "More Than a Goal: End Polio" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Contrary to popular belief, a good number of transvestites-both male and female-are also heterosexual. Just because they want to get dressed up like the opposite sex does not necessarily mean they want to go to bed with the same sex. Some have successful heterosexual marriages & enjoy the most delightful shopping experiences.

  Peter McWilliams

  Sex, Mean, Successful

  Peter McWilliams (1993). “Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that "speak" about the basic nature of their relationship.

  Annette Gordon-Reed

  Belief, Action, Speak

  6 Copy quote

• I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to popular belief, filming isn't glamorous. It can be wearingly repetitious, as the same shot is taken over and over again.

  Stephen Hawking

  Taken, Fiction, Stories

  "Stephen Hawking Reveals What He REALLY Thought Of Eddie Redmayne In 'The Theory Of Everything'". The Huffington Post UK Interview, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. August 5, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Contrary to popular belief, maybe, I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people. And I'm not really super impressed even if you're my hero; I can just rap with you and we can hang. I'm not gonna like sit there and bite my lip and ask questions about certain songs - okay I might do that once or twice. But it's just, like, two people hanging out.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Rap, Hero

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians.

  Nick Goepper

  Sports, Christian, Community

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.

  Julie Andrews

  Pride, Achievement, Greed

  54 Copy quote

• High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

  John Green

  Funny, Senior, Queens

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.489, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Horse, People

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”, p.365, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do.

  S. E. Hinton

  Mother, Brother, Crazy

  4 Copy quote

• Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

  David Benioff

  Doe, Belief, Easier

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as an educated person. You are either learning or you are not. In today's world, it is vitally important that you see the truth in Eric Hoffer's statement. The win or loss, which is waiting in the wings for every person, is enormous. You get to choose which you will experience.

  Bob Proctor

  Life, Motivational, Loss

  11 Copy quote

• Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Good Times, Belief, Having A Good Time

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly designed to discriminate. Contrary to popular belief, discrimination or segregation do not require animus. They thrive even in the absence of prejudice or ill will. It's common to have racism without racists.

  Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  Ill Will, Racism, Prejudice

  14 Copy quote

• Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Believe, Fighting, Exercise

  173 Copy quote

• Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.

  Larry Gelbart

  Legs, Firsts, Belief

  "Larry Gelbart's `M*A*S*H' Memories and Comic Asides" by Larry Gelbart, www.sfgate.com. May 17, 1998.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Contrary to popular belief, I have always had a wonderful repertoire with my players.

  Danny Ozark

  Player, Belief, Wonderful

  8 Copy quote

• Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

  Peter McWilliams

  Courage, Fear, Belief

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source