Phenomenon quotes
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Life is a wondrous phenomenon.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul
-- Aleister Crowley -
If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.
-- Artie Shaw -
Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.
-- Avery Brundage -
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When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
Health is not just a physical phenomenon. We do not just have physical bodies.
-- Christopher Penczak -
Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.
-- Colleen McCullough -
Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
-- David Berlinski -
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I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens.
-- Diane Kruger -
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
-- Ernst Mayr -
Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.
-- Evangelos Venizelos -
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
-- Franz Grillparzer -
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Yoga is a spectacularly multifaceted phenomenon and as such it is very difficult to define.
-- Georg Feuerstein -
Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.
-- Georgia Harkness -
The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.
-- Gertrude Stein -
Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.
-- Graham Chapman -
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As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
-- Jock Sturges -
No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
-- John Archibald Wheeler -
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
-- John Brunner -
Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis.
-- John Cho -
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The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.
-- John Searle -
One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.
-- Joseph Silk -
Paulinho is like a black Lampard, but also makes headed goals. He is a phenomenon.
-- Juan Roman Riquelme -
I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
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Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.
-- Lawrence Summers -
My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.
-- Mercedes McCambridge -
We're kind of an international phenomenon.
-- Michael Stipe -
The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev -
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Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
-- Milton Friedman -
Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.
-- Patricia Hampl -
Fame is an interesting phenomenon.
-- Paulina Porizkova -
We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization
-- Peter L. Berger -
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When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.
-- Richard Holloway -
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
-- Richard John Neuhaus -
We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.
-- Sally Warner -
Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?
-- Scott Steiner -
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Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
-- Sidney Altman -
Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.
-- Stephen Crane -
Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.
-- Sugata Mitra -
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.
-- Thomas Cech -
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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
-- Usain Bolt -
...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.
-- Werner Heisenberg -
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
-- Wilhelm Dilthey -
Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.
-- Wim Wenders -
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Frozen is a phenomenon on an entirely new Disney scale.
-- Edward Kitsis -
Trump is a hybrid phenomenon as I see it. He is somewhat like UKIP and Le Pen with his right-wing populism that espouses some fascist overtones, but he's also partly just the old neoliberalism in disguise, especially if we look at some of the people he appointed to his cabinet.
-- John Bellamy Foster -
For me, we're all comfortable, we're all happy, hopefully, but at the same time something will happen and you have to kind of understand that phenomenon. You have to understand what's going on and I've always been fascinated by craziness and lunacy.
-- Richard Patrick -
The phenomenon of HIV criminalization is so much more massive than people understand.
-- Sean Strub -
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Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon.
-- Bob Gaudio -
If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.
-- Patricia Churchland -
Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.
-- Grayson Perry
