Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!
Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company.
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.
What I say is, if a witch can't look after herself, she's got no business calling herself a witch.
I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!” "We all have. It's called living." (Hogfather)
A worldwide web of electronic connections now moves data at ever-increasing speed and volume along what we call the information superhighway.
I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.
When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.
I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.
These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.
We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.
