FastSaying

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.


Paul Bloom

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for...
CICERO If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
DALAI LAMA Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
AYN RAND but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.
JOHN GREEN We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
DALAI LAMA A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. Af...
PRINCE CHARLES It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.
FRANCIS J. GRIMKE This is not an uncommon impression and one finds it sometimes among Jews as well as Christians--that...
RABBI BOKSER It is necessary that one who really and truly fights for the right, if he is to survive even for a s...
SOCRATES Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else ...
JIM VALVANO The qualities of man comes Thus, not only he is able to survive in any kind of situation but he also...
SAM VEDA no man will survive who genuinely opposes you or any other crowd and prevents the occurrence of many...
PLATO Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
EARTHA KITT More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the wors...
DOUG LARSON Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if...
J.K. ROWLING People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.
DANIEL MELGAçO This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re...
JESSICA STERN Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of...
ERIC HOFFER We agree that man was not created to survive in space.
WALTER LANG No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organi...
PETER DRUCKER No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organi...
PETER F. DRUCKER Our schools face the herculean task of perpetuating values and attitudes for which many in our socie...
MATTHEW FARLEY This is a very exciting result. It's the first demonstration that animals can survive a reentry even...
CATHARINE CONLEY To survive is to win.
ZHANG YIMOU Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
KARL LAGERFELD Even as she began to slip into the gloaming of her life, the primal need to live…to survive...claw...
R. W. PATTERSON It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you
MARGARET ATWOOD It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of i...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attit...
PRINCE CHARLES The interpretation that Judaism is a religion of law and Christianity is a religion of love is a lon...
RABBI GEOFF DENNIS Nothing is meaningless on earth. God has even made the grass a food for some animals. He has created...
MD. ZIAUL HAQUE Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thou...
MARY O'HARA Love is like gravity. You can't see it, touch it, or even feel it, but it surrounds you all the time...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
HARLAN STONE Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy b...
SHAUN HICK Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
HANNAH ARENDT Survive, survive and survive – these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not a...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
STUART CHASE The animal is not likely to survive and if it does survive it's going to take a toll on the native w...
HENRY CABBAGE It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You canno...
L. RON HUBBARD Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon....
AYN RAND No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other f...
MARK TWAIN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS In order to survive in a world of instinct,
its' alternative is to hunt or being hunted.
R...
TOBA BETA Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an ins...
OSCAR NIEMEYER The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut...
MAX LERNER A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
MARGARET ATWOOD Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your l...
ROBIN HOBB A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Fria...
LUIS PALAU Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
WENDELL MAYES No species can survive such a high mortality rate. It is more difficult for an already endangered sp...
BISWAJIT MOHANTY Write what you know best. If you can't survive a cross-examination from a lawyer on the subject, you...
LINDA F. RADKE Without a goal, you cannot survive.
DALE ADAMS If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't a...
SHANNON L. ALDER Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel...
JAMES C. DOBSON Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles You cannot escape Christ, do what You will. You reject His divini...
A. J. GOSSIP It is not enough to have a body to be qualified as a man. Animals too have bodies and we don’t cal...
SUNDAY ADELAJA We cannot afford the over-consumptive paradigm of the day; it is either feast today; starve tomorrow...
HANNO LANGENHOVEN To make the State your god is to worship an idol, for the State is a man-made creation arising natur...
EDEN PHILLPOTTS People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often, That was ...
FRANCES HARDINGE Love is a chemical reaction, but it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a b...
SUZY KASSEM We don’t have to take rejection as a reflection of our self-worth. If somebody who is important (o...
MELODY BEATTIE For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The pathological needs of the ego can only survive by creating contradictions to every thought. As y...
CHRISTOPHER DINES All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no socie...
GERMAINE GREER It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire a...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER Darkness cannot survive in light, but a light can shine in the dark!
ODILLE RAULT Darkness cannot survive in light. But a light can shine in the dark
ODILLE RAULT If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the inst...
CLYDE TOMBAUGH Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon....
AYN RAND We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not corresp...
NOAM CHOMSKY The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To lo...
ALBERT CAMUS Loyalty is a like a plant, it cannot be nurtured once, if it is to survive. Every now and then it mu...
NOLAN BANKS I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
CHEVY CHASE Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.
BORIS SPASSKY You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, ev...
MARGARET WEIS All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ...
TERRY EAGLETON We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now w...
ROBERT BIANCO To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegia...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can...
NED VIZZINI A people without faith in themselves cannot survive.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB A people without faith in themselves cannot survive
CHINESE PROVERBS But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot prote...
WIM WENDERS

More Paul Bloom

On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the...
PAUL BLOOM The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. ...
PAUL BLOOM We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitud...
PAUL BLOOM It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group t...
PAUL BLOOM We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate m...
PAUL BLOOM I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by t...
PAUL BLOOM Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the en...
PAUL BLOOM The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum phys...
PAUL BLOOM If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the ...
PAUL BLOOM Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Mod...
PAUL BLOOM Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stun...
PAUL BLOOM If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societ...
PAUL BLOOM Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countle...
PAUL BLOOM If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be noth...
PAUL BLOOM Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survi...
PAUL BLOOM It's really difficult working with kids and with babies because they are not cooperative subject...
PAUL BLOOM Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flex...
PAUL BLOOM Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there's more to loo...
PAUL BLOOM Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know thi...
PAUL BLOOM We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the bal...
PAUL BLOOM Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.
PAUL BLOOM Strong moral arguments exist for why we should often try to ignore stereotypes or override them. But...
PAUL BLOOM Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're of...
PAUL BLOOM The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be go...
PAUL BLOOM Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's im...
PAUL BLOOM Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as m...
PAUL BLOOM Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of...
PAUL BLOOM Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral age...
PAUL BLOOM Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sport...
PAUL BLOOM If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?
PAUL BLOOM Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky,...
PAUL BLOOM Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have ...
PAUL BLOOM Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny ...
PAUL BLOOM In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that ...
PAUL BLOOM A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly acc...
PAUL BLOOM A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very star...
PAUL BLOOM The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its founda...
PAUL BLOOM More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held concept...
PAUL BLOOM These facts are an embarrassment for those who see supernatural beliefs as a cultural anachronism, s...
PAUL BLOOM It might feel, at least to some of us, that our opinions about issues such as abortion and the death...
PAUL BLOOM The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Littl...
PAUL BLOOM Families survive the Terrible Twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hand...
PAUL BLOOM We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share...
PAUL BLOOM I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The s...
RACHEL BLOOM If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretens...
HAROLD BLOOM If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is ...
HAROLD BLOOM Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of...
HAROLD BLOOM All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind...
HAROLD BLOOM No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every c...
HAROLD BLOOM I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, bec...
HAROLD BLOOM I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a...
HAROLD BLOOM Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of...
HAROLD BLOOM I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
HAROLD BLOOM I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
HAROLD BLOOM I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
HAROLD BLOOM What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or ...
HAROLD BLOOM The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been in...
HAROLD BLOOM What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that yo...
HAROLD BLOOM In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
HAROLD BLOOM Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, ev...
HAROLD BLOOM What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems t...
HAROLD BLOOM What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the...
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare is universal.
HAROLD BLOOM We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profound...
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage eve...
HAROLD BLOOM The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overh...
HAROLD BLOOM But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we h...
HAROLD BLOOM Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
HAROLD BLOOM Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi...
AMY BLOOM Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
ORLANDO BLOOM I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so g...
ORLANDO BLOOM Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
ORLANDO BLOOM My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset...
AMY BLOOM I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing t...
ORLANDO BLOOM Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
ORLANDO BLOOM When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to s...
ORLANDO BLOOM Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you'r...
ORLANDO BLOOM As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that ...
ORLANDO BLOOM I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
ORLANDO BLOOM Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make ...
ORLANDO BLOOM People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car.
ORLANDO BLOOM When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
ORLANDO BLOOM A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and devel...
ORLANDO BLOOM Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
ORLANDO BLOOM People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped...
ORLANDO BLOOM Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on somethin...
ORLANDO BLOOM Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
ORLANDO BLOOM I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children...
ORLANDO BLOOM As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day...
ORLANDO BLOOM I just want to have a nice, happy life.
ORLANDO BLOOM I have noticed when you get a bunch of dudes in a room together, and you just have one woman or two ...
RACHEL BLOOM When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press...
CLAIRE BLOOM Laura is the perfect guest for Valentine's Day. She's a true professional who is able to discuss sex...
AL BLOOM The rings are great sellers because they keep the man hard and they stimulate the woman.
AL BLOOM Her toys are very popular with our customers so we're excited to have them.
AL BLOOM Laura is the perfect guest for Valentine's Day. She's a true professional who is able to discuss sex...
AL BLOOM I don't want to do only blockbusters.
ORLANDO BLOOM Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
AMY BLOOM Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious ill...
ALLAN BLOOM Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrum...
ALLAN BLOOM There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magi...
ALLAN BLOOM There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the unive...
ALLAN BLOOM The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - t...
ALLAN BLOOM Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industr...
ALLAN BLOOM Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great...
ALLAN BLOOM According to the myth, Prometheus steal fire to free us; Iago steals us as fresh fodder for the fire...
HAROLD BLOOM There's an idealism starting to bubble up again. Today's kids aren't the materialist, MBA, Bonfire-o...
ALEXANDER BLOOM Murdered children, child prodigies - those stories strike the population at a different level than s...
ALEXANDER BLOOM Kids add an extra weight to whatever is going on,
ALEXANDER BLOOM She has to be careful that she doesn't become her own road show, in which she becomes someone who go...
ALEXANDER BLOOM You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
AMY BLOOM The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- ...
ALLAN BLOOM Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
ALLAN BLOOM The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not becau...
ALLAN BLOOM The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
ALLAN BLOOM Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completio...
ALLAN BLOOM Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrum...
ALLAN BLOOM As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
ALLAN BLOOM Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their childre...
ALLAN BLOOM Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school...
ALLAN BLOOM There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth...
ALLAN BLOOM Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disap...
ALLAN BLOOM People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginativ...
HAROLD BLOOM I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike
HAROLD BLOOM We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The sheph...
ALLAN BLOOM The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --t...
ALLAN BLOOM The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the ...
ALLAN BLOOM There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a m...
ALLAN BLOOM There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magi...
ALLAN BLOOM How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
ORLANDO BLOOM If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
ORLANDO BLOOM Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
ORLANDO BLOOM Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just ...
RACHEL BLOOM I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent an...
ORLANDO BLOOM When it comes to meals, there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways.
ORLANDO BLOOM I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have...
ORLANDO BLOOM As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so ex...
ORLANDO BLOOM Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the...
ALLAN BLOOM The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
ALLAN BLOOM I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just gr...
ORLANDO BLOOM Education is the movement from darkness to light.
ALLAN BLOOM Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and the...
AMY BLOOM People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Na...
AMY BLOOM I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn...
ORLANDO BLOOM Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.
LISA BLOOM If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you ...
ORLANDO BLOOM I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot...
ORLANDO BLOOM How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps a...
HAROLD BLOOM I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun...
ORLANDO BLOOM Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can thi...
ORLANDO BLOOM My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And ...
RACHEL BLOOM My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apo...
ORLANDO BLOOM I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening...
AMY BLOOM The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
ORLANDO BLOOM How does a cosmos without a bearded, bathrobed God in the sky pull off all the things that a bearded...
HOWARD BLOOM I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we d...
ORLANDO BLOOM There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pre...
RACHEL BLOOM New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and underst...
HOWARD BLOOM I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
CLAIRE BLOOM I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
ORLANDO BLOOM Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic...
ORLANDO BLOOM In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian ...
HAROLD BLOOM I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and on...
AMY BLOOM I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the A...
AMY BLOOM I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was r...
ORLANDO BLOOM You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bu...
ORLANDO BLOOM When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I h...
ORLANDO BLOOM The title 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is meant to be a deconstruction of a stereotype, and the who...
RACHEL BLOOM The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
RACHEL BLOOM The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
AMY BLOOM Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
HAROLD BLOOM We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
HAROLD BLOOM Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
AMY BLOOM I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult fi...
ORLANDO BLOOM Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the...
ALLAN BLOOM Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple her...
ORLANDO BLOOM Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I nev...
ORLANDO BLOOM My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about...
ORLANDO BLOOM Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gas...
HOWARD BLOOM We all have day jobs and fantasize about being rock stars and alt-country stars.
DAVE BLOOM The people from church see us in a totally different environment. But I have to censor myself on the...
DAVE BLOOM There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proporti...
ORLANDO BLOOM Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
ORLANDO BLOOM I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the thing...
AMY BLOOM I think his modus operandi has evolved into, you can just try to do the best you can every single da...
LARRY BLOOM I have my own show at 28 and a Golden Globe. So, yes, I face rejection, but I've also been very ...
RACHEL BLOOM I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whol...
RON BLOOM Obviously, this is a continuation of dollar woes.
DAVID BLOOM I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone...
ORLANDO BLOOM Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their childre...
ALLAN BLOOM It really isn't about winning the medal for me.
JEREMY BLOOM I'll have a week to put the cleats on and get ready. Is a week enough? I don't see why not. I've bee...
JEREMY BLOOM I'm humbled to be here, and I'm very excited. The sport of football has been a huge passion of mine ...
JEREMY BLOOM Well, this is America, so obviously football is the Big Daddy in this country. It gets the most atte...
JEREMY BLOOM I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
ORLANDO BLOOM Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm m...
ORLANDO BLOOM