Quotes of: Naturalism Keyword

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Flaubert's Parrot

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

A Fine and Private Place

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

Frankenstein

What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality.

The God Box

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

The Great Divorce

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

Green Darkness

While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me to no end. (Kinsey Millhone)

G is for Gumshoe

...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.

Goldfinger

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

Gone with the Wind

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

From Here to Eternity

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Heartbreak House

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

The Born Again Skeptic's Guide To The Bible

Only as equals can we keep the peace. It is not in our nature, but it is the only way to survive.

Bitter Blood

Do either a brick or a blanket have Buddha nature? The answer is yes and no and maybe, in a Triangle of Truth where there is no is, and there is no isn’t.


Brick

...there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to fuck and the desire to kill.

Big in Japan: A Ghost Story

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

Bend Sinister

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.

Diego Della Valle

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.

Jack Dee

Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.

Richard Dean Anderson

Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

Ashton Kutcher

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Dorothy Thompson