Fields Quotes - Page 21

• Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.

  Thom Yorke

  Fall, Sleep, Tonight

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• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page

  Ted Koppel

  New York, Pages, Looks

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• Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

  Archilochus

  Law, Safety, Useless

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• Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

  Theodore Parker

  Design, Labor, Good Sense

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• Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Writing, Printed Word, People

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• Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Fiction, Limits, Wonderful

  Interview with David Duncan, www.physics.emory.edu.

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• I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Years, People, Twenties

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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• Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Believe, Winning, Winner

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.68

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• I believe that a woman should always remain a woman and nothing feminine should be alien to her. At the same time, I strongly feel that no work done by a woman in the field of science or culture or whatever, however vigorous or demanding, can enter into conflict with her ancient 'wonderful mission' -- to love, to be loved -- and with her craving for the bliss of motherhood.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Believe, Motherhood, Done

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• His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master’s house out than the master himself would. But then you had another Negro out in the field. The house Negro was in the minority. The masses—the field Negroes were the masses. They were in the majority. When the master got sick, they prayed that he’d die. If his house caught on fire, they'd pray for a wind to come along and fan the breeze.

  Malcolm X

  Hurt, Pain, Fighting

  Malcolm X (1989). “Malcolm X: The Last Speeches”, Pathfinder Press

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• In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

  Earl Warren

  Education, Doctrine, Equal

  Brown v. Board of Education (1954) See John M. Harlan (1833 - 1911) 1; Kerner 1

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• Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Discipline, Companion

  FaceBook post by Jonathan Lethem from Aug 18, 2014

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• Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

  David Lehman

  Orbit, Used, Fixed

  David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr

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• Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies.

  Denise Levertov

  Butterfly, Touching, Paper

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.143, New Directions Publishing

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• I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

  Barbara Hambly

  Impossible, Making Money, Break

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• I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.

  Brooks Robinson

  Struggle, Long, Hitting

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• Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.

  Steve Carlton

  Sports

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• But I would say basically, I would just like to be remembered for what I did on the field.

  Steve Carlton

  Sports, Remembered

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• You got to play a hundred and fifty games a year, so pick your spots. You can miss two games a month; so pick the days you're gonna be hurt, or you're gonna rest or you're gonna have a drink or two. The rest of the time, be on that field.

  Hank Aaron

  Hurt, Years, Games

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• Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.

  John Ensign

  Troops, Senators

  "Raising the volume" by John F. Dickerson and Karen Tumulty, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2004.

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• Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.

  Douglas Adams

  Differences, Fire, People

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore the field is extremely competitive. I console myself with the thought that although they may be smarter and may be deeper thinkers than I am, I have broader interests than they have.

  Linus Pauling

  Smart, Theoretical Physics, People

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• We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star.

  John Henry Hopkins, Jr.

  Christmas, Kings, Stars

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• Get out well, but not too quickly, move through the field, be comfortable. Strategy-wise, go with your strengths. If you don't have a great finish, you must get away to win. I've always found it effective to make a move just before the crest of a hill. You get away just a little and you're gone before your opponent gets over the top. Also, around a tight bend, take off like holy hell. I've done that a number of times. You should not be flying down the home straight. Most of your efforts should have been put forth earlier.

  John Treacy

  Wise, Running, Moving

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• O Christian! do not falter,
  The harvest field is white,
  And many souls are sinking
  Into eternal night.

  William Evander Penn

  Christian, Night, White

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