Quotes of: Joseph-campbell Keyword

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

Roberta Williams

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

Sherry Turkle

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

William Graham Sumner

The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god.

William Robertson Smith

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

William Robertson Smith

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Bob Woodward

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

Anne Sullivan

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.

Heinrich Schliemann

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

Edward Sapir

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Edward Sapir

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

Edward Burnett Tylor

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.

Franz Boas

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Clifford Geertz

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

Clifford Geertz

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

Clifford Geertz

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

Christopher Nolan

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

James Henry Breasted