Michael Crist Quotes

It's just you, Little Monster. Own it or it will own you. ~ Penelope Douglas

Bourdieu posits the notion of a "feel for the game", one that is never perfect and that takes prolonged immersion to develop. This is a particularly practical understanding of practice – highlighted by Bourdieu's use of terms such as "practical mastery", "sense of practice" and "practical knowledge" – that he claims is missing from structuralist accounts and the objectivism of Lévi Strauss. Bourdieu contrasts the abstract logic of such approaches, with their
notion of practice as "rule-following", with the practical logic of social agents. Even this notion of a game, he warns, must be handled with caution:
You can use the analogy of the game in order to say that a set of people take part in a rule-bound activity, an activity which, without necessarily being the product of obedience to rules, obeys certain regularities . . . Should one talk of a rule? Yes and no. You can do so on condition that you distinguish clearly between rule and regularity. The social game is regulated, it is the locus of certain regularities.
To understand practice, then, one must relate these regularities of social fields to the practical logic of social agents; their "feel for the game" is a feel for these regularities. The source of this practical logic is the habitus. ~ Michael James Grenfell

The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes. ~ Macklemore

Without accepting some risk we would never have had vaccines, X-rays, airplanes, or antibiotics. Caution is simply a different kind of risk, one that is even more likely to kill people ~ Michael Specter

I wonder if Harley-Davidson makes a unicycle ~ Michael Hedges

But when you didn't have the tools to deal with all that happened to you, you turned to whatever vice you needed in order to get through the seconds, minutes, and hours of a given day. You turned to it when you thought about moments of the previous days, months, years and decades that continues to torment you. And then you repeated the cycle of your abusers by taking out what ailed you on those closest to you. ~ Michael Arceneaux

A high point in a life lived at sea level, prone to flooding. ~ Michael Chabon

I know that good things will happen for me if I keep working hard. ~ Michael Redd

Bosch knew that department policy held that deadly force was justified if it was used to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to an officer or a citizen. Mendenhall was not required to identify herself or give Ellis the opportunity to drop his weapon. ~ Michael Connelly

Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them. ~ Michael Frayn

Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation. ~ Michael Pare

Reason quite properly rejects contradiction, but rationalism abhors mystery, which every heresy attempts in its own way to resolve. ~ Michael S. Horton

They chose "beer as soda pop." Craft brewers are "beer as wine. ~ Michael Jackson

How could I possibly explain the great freedom that comes from realizing to the depth of your being that life knows what it's doing? ~ Michael A. Singer

Human beings are made to forget things, otherwise they couldn't tolerate the pain of life. They say that time heals, but it's not time, it's some inner power all people have. ~ Michael Molloy

The Sinai covenant itself, then, is a law-covenant. The land is given to Israel, but for the purpose of fulfilling its covenantal vocation. Remaining in the land is there fore conditional on Israel's personal performance of the stipulations that people swore at Sinai ... The ultimate promise of a worldwide family of Abraham
sinners justified and glorified in a renewed creation
is unconditional in its basis, while the continuing existence of the national theocracy as a type of that everlasting covenant depended on Israel's obedience ... The Decalogue and Joshua 24 fit this suzerainty pattern, but as Mendenhall observe, "it can readily be seen that the covenant with Abraham (and Noah) is of completely different form." P.15 ~ Michael S. Horton

Keeping your eye on the future is essential for making the most of today. ~ Michael Hyatt

Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs. ~ Michael Foot

I shoved three CDs up my ass and got them out of Tower Records. It hurt like hell but I did it. New Michael Bolton, new Sting, and the best of Sammy Hagar. Totally painful. Definitely worth it. ~ Henry Rollins

I keep thinking about all the kids who got wiped out by seventeen years of war movies before coming to Vietnam to get wiped out for good. You don't know what a media freak is until you've seen the way a few of those grunts would run around during a fight when they knew that there was a television crew nearby; they were actually making war movies in their heads, doing little guts-and-glory Leatherneck tap dances under fire, getting their pimples shot off for the networks. They were insane, but the war hadn't done that to them. Most combat troops stopped thinking of the war as an adventure after their first few firefights, but there were always the ones who couldn't let that go, these few who were up there doing numbers for the cameras ... We'd all seen too many movies, stayed too long in Television City, years of media glut had made certain connections difficult. ~ Michael Herr

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise. ~ Michael Silverblatt

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. ~ Michael Jordan

The blessings of the devil is the beginning of dread. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience. ~ Michael Bolton

Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on. ~ Michael Ledeen

You didn't answer my question. Do you want me?"

~Michael ~ Rosalie Lario

Every choice you make as an actor ends up being really influential on your life, because you're spending a lot of time working on this project, and you want to make sure you're making good choices and you're not making them for the wrong reasons. I just want to be careful and not jump into anything. ~ Michael Cera

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. ~ Michael Keaton

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage. ~ Michael Lewis

A third reason scientists are reluctant to examine paranormal phenomena is that they appear to contradict known physical laws. What is the point of studying the impossible? Only a fool would waste his time. The problem of data in conflict with existing theory cannot be overstated. Arthur Eddington once said you should never believe any experiment until it has been confirmed by theory, but this humorous view has a reality that cannot be discounted. ~ Michael Crichton

Frankly, out in America, you get the feeling that America is dying. And along its highways and byways, the country seems less ready to leap into the future than it is already clinging to a sepia-toned past when America stood as the unencumbered Big Boy in a Manichean world of good and evil, capitalists and Commies. Even the neon oasis-pods of the interstate - the perpetual clusters of Wendy's, McDonald's, Denny's, and Burger King - are crowded with people strangely reclaiming bygone days, connecting themselves to some prior eating experience, reveling in the familiar. We gas ~ Michael Paterniti

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager. ~ Michael Jackson

I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning. ~ Michael Lewis

These are clearly the end times, and now we understand why the prophets warned us about the Trump of Doom. ~ Michael R. Burch

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them. ~ Michael Haneke

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing. ~ Michael J. Fox

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us. ~ Michael Moore

There are certain words that should never be spoken, names that should never be used. Old things. Undead things. ~ Michael Scott

Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.' ~ Conan O'Brien

This lunch, however, was going nowhere. Li Yong sat across the table running his mouth like a nervous sewing machine, never missing an opportunity for self-congratulations. ~ Michael Ben Zehabe

THE RELIABLE WAY OUT OF OBESITY IS VIA PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. This point has been lost on the hundreds of folks who have railed against my arguments for food addiction in periodicals, so I"m eager to make it here: No one but me put the food in my mouth. Even if I had grown up imprisoned in a crawl space under the basement stairs (I wasn't), even if tragedy has befallen me every 15 minutes since (it hasn't), I"m still responsible for what I eat. If my food is out of control (it was), then I'm responsible for finding, requesting, and accepting the help I need. ~ Michael Prager

There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex. ~ Michael Moore

I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something. ~ Michael Winslow

Your mind is a book; God is the pen. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If you're decent to others, then you're decent to yourself. ~ Michael Savage

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise. ~ Michael Morpurgo

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable. ~ Michael Shermer

The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds. ~ Michael Lee-Chin

How are you feeling, man?" he asks me.
"Great," I tell him, and it is purely the truth. Doves clatter up out of a bare tree and turn at the same instant, transforming themselves from steel to silver in the snow-blown light. I know at that moment that the drug is working. Everything before me has become suddenly, radiantly itself. How could Carlton have known this was about to happen? "Oh," I whisper. His hand settles on my shoulder.
"Stay loose, Frisco," he says. "There's not a thing in this pretty world to be afraid of. I'm here."
I am not afraid. I am astonished. I had not realized until this moment how real everything is. A twig lies on the marble at my feet, bearing a cluster of hard brown berries. The broken-off end is raw, white, fleshly. Trees are alive.
"I'm here," Carlton says again, and he is. ~ Michael Cunningham

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two. ~ Michael Cunningham