#phenomenon

There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#arnold schwarzenegger #because #brilliant #close #him

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#commonplace #creations #living #nature #nothing

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#phenomenon #real #until

It's a phenomenon that we don't really understand. ↗

— Russell Johnson

#really #understand

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#back #cuba #europe #forgotten #grandparents

When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#many #opinions #part #phenomenon #pop

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#ascribe #assume #basic #certain #civilization

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you. ↗

— Christopher McCandless

#means #personal #personal relationship #phenomenon #relationship

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#capacity #derive #desire #feel #her

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible. ↗

— Jan Morris

#beirut #impossible #perhaps #phenomenon #quite