Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience’s imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there’s no fourth wall. – Stephen Sondheim
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else. – William Cavendish
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage. – William Bligh
So the thing I realized rather gradually – I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things – there’s a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature. – Stephen Wolfram
I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. – Yvon Chouinard
How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses. – William Godwin
I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations. – Sam Graves
We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world. – William H. Gass
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars. – Satish Kumar
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. – Trofim Lysenko
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. – William Lyon Phelps
In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd. – Simon Greenleaf
I like Alaska for the salmon fishing – it’s fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I’m also happy to be on my own with nature. – Vinnie Jones
Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she’s been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff? – Thomas Friedman
By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book. – Steve Erickson
I think the single most important, fascinating, and complex aspect of human nature is that we all know, deep down, that we are not what we ought to be – or as John Doe says in ‘Seven,’ ‘We are not what was intended.’ – Scott Derrickson
I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations. – William H. Seward
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature. – Thorstein Veblen
As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,’ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. – Woody Allen
But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature. – William Cavendish
As a very small boy, my passion was nature, and I had pets – cats, a dog and a bunny rabbit – and I wrote a very small book called ‘My Pets,’ filled with their photographs and a discussion about my pets and how much I loved them… That was my first book. – Tony Buzan
‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’ – W. H. Auden
When I am out and about I feel watched. It’s become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego. – Thandie Newton
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. – Tony Campolo
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos. – William Irwin Thompson
