245 Phenomenon Quotes for You to Enjoy

For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon. Jay S. Walker

Future History You Class Job Imagination Everybody Everybody Else Else Ways Ruling Ruling Class Part Most Fairly Doing Were Modern Human Different Then Human History Your Different Ways Things Phenomenon Imagine

For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that's exactly how they've been treated. Jeffrey Kluger

Generation Entitled Parents Sit Believe Universe Exactly Emperor Known Because How Been Years Children Center Chinese Little Social Teachers Who Now Treated Pampered Phenomenon

Social messaging has become the defining app of the smartphone era. Social payments has been a natural extension of this phenomenon - it's going to be the locus of most communications activity. Jeremy Allaire

Natural Become Defining Has-Been Most Messaging Era Been Going Social Communications App Payments Activity Extension Phenomenon

I think the big thing is that Stephen King is just a phenomenon, and when he came along, for the first time horror was suddenly considered a very commercial genre. It had always been around, of course, but now, the books had the word 'horror' actually printed on their spines. Joe R. Lansdale

Time Word King First Big Think Books Considered Horror Had He Stephen King Along Genre Course Printed Around First Time Always Came Been Very Commercial Just Big Thing Suddenly Now Actually Thing Phenomenon

I sense that the sea of smart phones lit up at concerts is a temporary phenomenon. The integration of technology, sharing, and social into our physical world, on the other hand, well, that ain't going away. John Battelle

Technology Phones World Smart Sense Other Our Physical Temporary Physical World Sharing Well Concerts Integration Hand Up Going Going Away Lit Social Sea Away Phenomenon

The 'Sisters' phenomenon was a byproduct of the 'Trainwreck' deal. I had to do the normal auditioning process for 'Trainwreck'. I was extremely nervous for it, because you plan for this one event, and you get the opportunity. John Cena

You Opportunity Nervous Extremely Had Because Deal Auditioning Normal Sisters Get Process Plan Event Phenomenon

'Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis. John Cho

Lost Elvis Like Phenomenon

I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone. John Lanchester

Great People Cafe Phone Behavior Own Nothing Those Pretend Above My Own Fact Absolutely Observing Like Height Staring Olympian Phenomenon

Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in. Jonathan Frid

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon. Jonathan Sacks

Complex Phenomenon

'The Rap Year Book' is really great. Shea Serrano wrote it, and it became this huge phenomenon where he sold out everywhere and made the bestseller list just on the strength of his fans on Twitter wanting him to succeed. Josh Gondelman

Strength Great Book Fans Made Year Twitter Sold Everywhere Rap Out Bestseller He Wrote Him Became His Huge List Just Where Wanting Succeed Really Phenomenon

Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away. Joshua Foer

Memory Confused Mind Before Few Eye Bizarre Photographic Rarely Minutes Vivid Percent Perceptual Adult Fading Between Another Real Occurs Lingers Up Very Often Essentially Children In-Between Which Away Image Phenomenon

The Trump phenomenon might feel both interminable and unprecedented to Republican elites, but of course it isn't. Joy Reid

Unprecedented Both Feel Course Trump Republican Might Elites Phenomenon

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start. Judith Butler

Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long. Julian Baggini

Science Culture Physics Long Changed Way Range Possibilities Staying Habit Remain Never Observation Because Within Quantum Limited Quantum Physics Nasty However Falls Very Same Human Being Where Which Regular Interferes Works Even Phenomena Phenomenon

I remember, my freshman year of college, sitting in my TV room at the end of my dorm hallway with one other girl watching the premiere of 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' And then, a year later, walking into a room packed with college students watching '90210,' and I thought, 'I wonder what it must be like to be part of a phenomenon like that.' Julie Plec

Remember Thought College Girl Year Other Later TV Must College Students Students Part Beverly Beverly Hills Like Hills Hallway Year Later Freshman Freshman Year End Wonder Walking Sitting Dorm Packed Room Then Premiere Watching Phenomenon

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment. Kamal Ahmed

Queen Political Believe Saw Worry Scare Fed Also Genuine Lot Behaviour Being Stories Theme Moment Phenomenon Speech

Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs. Kara DioGuardi

Being a part of the 'Twilight' phenomenon was life-changing; there is a whole other world of 'Twilight' fandom! Kirsten Prout

World Other Life-Changing Part Being Whole Twilight Phenomenon

The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge. Kurt Sutter

Truth Time Myself Knowledge Country Nation Twitter Else Say Characters Indicative No Time Condemnation Handle Anyone Anyone Else Happening Capacity Much Really Whole Growing Desire Phenomenon

Phenomenon Quotes

No more phenomenon quotes