"Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism."

-- Nevill Drury

#Doubt Quotes #World Quotes #Academic Quotes

“The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.137, Overamstel Uitgevers
“Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck with the system they inherited. They felt that a complete and sudden abolition of slavery with no transition period would destroy their economy and leave many of the former slaves to starve - all of which actually happened in due course.”
“Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.”

Source : Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November, 2004.
“You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.”
“As a director you have to be at 30,000 ft objectively looking at everything, wondering if you're making the right objective, emotional, story, character choices. As the writer, while you're asking all of those same questions, you're also forced by the nature of what writing is to be looking at everything under a microscope. That's the difference between the two jobs.”

Source : Source: www.empireonline.com
“It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.”

Source : Ray Comfort (2011). “The Defender's Guide for Life's Toughest Questions”, p.163, New Leaf Publishing Group
“Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.”
“My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'”

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