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“If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.”
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“We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun is. It is almost second nature to us to prefer explanations . . . with a large vocabulary. We are much more comfortable when we are assured that the sunflower turns because it is heliotropic. The trouble with that kind of talk is that it tempts us to think that we know what the sunflower is up to. But we don't. The sunflower is a mystery, just as every single thing in the universe is.”
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“I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.”
Source : "Who is the real Uri Geller?". Holistic London Guide Interview, www.urigeller.com. Winter/Spring, 1997.
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“Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when they bake bread or have babies, and although they are perfectly entitled to feel that way, in fact, nature does most of the work.”
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“And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.”
Source : Source: www.salon.com
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“There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.”
Source : Erasmus Darwin, Robert Waring Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...”, p.2
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“I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.”
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“What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.”