Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
Most people don't mind being stupid, insomuch that they do not appear stupid; appearance and being are seldom simultaneous, congruent, and conclusive.
When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and greatest weakness.
My body, my soul and my mind, simultaneously response to good music.
At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.
The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably un...
Miranda doesn't dream, she simply rests. When Miranda's eyes are at ease, her mind is at peace.
Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why they kill you.
And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.
To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
Flambé - done beside a table covered in crisp starched linen in a French restaurant: a method to burn food and money simultaneously.
My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously.
My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.
There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.
We're quite into graphics that are simultaneously two- and three-dimensional. But I can't really elaborate any further because it's not something - we haven't really perfected it.
I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can't analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.
Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.
