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A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter. -- Susan Cheever
Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them! -- Marianne Williamson
I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times. -- Paul Laffoley
If you don't like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don't like cinema. -- Martin Scorsese
My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident. -- Michael Jackson
I don't know if Jared Leto or Leo [DiCaprio] would ever do Fuller House, but you never know. -- Jodi Sweetin
Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief. -- Nora Roberts
The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles. -- Paul Laffoley
I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else. -- Brownie McGhee
To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent. -- Jonathon Keats
[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes. -- Paul Laffoley
But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out. -- John Gay
It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career. -- Curtis Hanson
I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together. -- Curtis Hanson
There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect of nature. -- Jonathon Keats
The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family. -- Jonathan Reckford
[Buckminster Fuller] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once, but he kept coming back. -- Paul Laffoley
I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic worldview that I find horrific. -- Jonathon Keats
[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's still going. He was like a fireplug. -- Paul Laffoley
Samuel Fuller pictures were both written and shot in such an unusual way that his voice came through loud and clear, and it made a big impression on me. -- Curtis Hanson
I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that. -- Jonathon Keats
First of all, Sam Fuller left a group of extraordinary movies that are unique, that are "Fuller-esque," as one might say, which makes them stand apart from any other director's films. -- Curtis Hanson
[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basically aeronautics hadn't been invented. -- Jonathon Keats
The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a new generation that has not grown up with him. -- Jonathon Keats
His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them. -- Curtis Hanson
Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem. -- Jonathon Keats
I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has identified a scale of action I think is actually really compelling. -- Jonathon Keats
I was totally taken in and totally taken by that myth starting in 1999, rather carelessly writing about this archive and starting to read [Buckminster Fuller] self-representation, misrepresentation, whatever you want to call it. -- Jonathon Keats
What I think is really interesting is to look at the culture of disruption and of world-changing in terms of what [Buckminster] Fuller was doing and to draw the contrast more than the similarity. -- Jonathon Keats
I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of, looked like him a little bit, you know? I thought it was great. -- Paul Laffoley
I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home. -- John Brunner
For decades now, [Fuller] Torrey has been warning America what would happen if the dangerously mentally ill were deinstitutionalized, and it's all come true. Today, the only place we can put mental patients is on MSNBC. -- Ann Coulter
Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants. -- John Cage
We clearly recognize the need for something that is what [Buckminster Fuller] represents and therefore it becomes really useful and really interesting to look at the ways in which world changing today totally misses everything that was valuable. -- Jonathon Keats
Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age of "universal education and sustenance of all humanity". "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." -- Blaise Pascal
[There] was a time when a lot of people came to the door. The milkman. The iceman. The Fuller Brush man. Encyclopedia salesmen. There was a sense of interaction with the world that started right at your own front doorstep. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
I think that [Buckminster] Fuller certainly would have found a way in which to be funded by Google in a way that he was funded by the Marine Corps and everybody else. He would have remained obstinately his own creature. -- Jonathon Keats
First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in the world today than in his own lifetime from sustainability in terms of the environment to income inequality. -- Jonathon Keats
On a personal note, a legacy he left me, aside from being a friend who was important to me on many levels, was that the decades I knew Sam [Fuller] happened to be the decades that were his least happy professionally. -- Curtis Hanson
We're back around to [Buckminster] Fuller again. Back around to the recognition of patterns, which may be true or may not be. But nevertheless, have enough of a semblance that they're worth exploring. That, to me, is where my work begins. -- Jonathon Keats
You have those who have been living and breathing Buckminster Fuller ever since he converted them to his cult and to be honest, I'm really not interested in that audience at all. I think that they're going to die out soon enough. -- Jonathon Keats
I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life. -- Curtis Hanson
[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that world changing now is happening within the corporation by and large, and that disruption is ironically what corporations do. -- Jonathon Keats
I became really absorbed but again I was at that point - and I still remain today - an outsider who has no interest in becoming an insider, let alone in what that insider perspective on [Buckminster Fuller] has come to be and come to represent. -- Jonathon Keats
All sorts of problems and the interconnectedness between them that [Buckminster Fuller] was able to perceive sometimes rightly, often wrongly, always interestingly and also the fact that he was looking at solutions often that were not feasible in his own time but potentially could be applied today. -- Jonathon Keats
It was also a new role for me as a writer, because I wanted to just be there to serve Sam. I recognized that this picture would be "a Sam Fuller movie," and I was just trying, in whatever way I could, to help him get what he wanted. -- Curtis Hanson
Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives. -- Jane Fonda
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger. -- Philip Sidney
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. -- Muhammad Iqbal
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. -- Jeremy Collier
I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn. -- Debi Mazar
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. -- Saul Bellow
The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call a truce with it on a good day. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life. -- Dolph Lundgren
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. -- Muhammad Iqbal
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. -- Benjamin Franklin
It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain. -- Josiah Strong
I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence. -- Ricky Williams
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in. -- Alfred de Vigny
Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk. -- Kenneth Grahame
It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful. -- Lily Collins
I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights. -- Frank Miller
A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has. -- John Roberts
I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic. -- Francesca Annis
Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world. -- Nigel Lythgoe
I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right. -- Julia Child
Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships. -- Matt Damon
Art is to make our lives richer and fuller. -- Henry Moore
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In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws. -- Charles Kingsley
A fuller expression of Self comes from the journey for greater wholeness. -- Kathryn V. White
You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them. -- Robert Breault
Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience -- Lilian Katz
The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being. -- Abraham Maslow
I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams. -- Virginia Woolf
He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller. -- Anne Tyler
the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy. -- John Calvin
We wanted a periodical that would help people live richer, fuller, freer, more self-directed lives. -- Graham Fellows
Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there. -- Ann Dowd
I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer. -- Muhammad Iqbal
What's writing really about? It's about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. -- Ted Hughes
Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun. -- Katori Hall
You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance. -- Marisa Tomei
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality. -- Vera John-Steiner
Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life. -- Henry Moore
Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it. -- Lawrence Fagg
I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory Wait God's will. -- Charlotte Bronte
Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear? -- Francis Quarles
Existence continues at death for the believer in a fuller, more fulfilling way. Death should hold no fear for the believer. -- Paul P. Enns
I think if more designers designed clothes with a more fuller figure in mind, it would represent women in a greater sense. -- Nigel Barker
If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were. -- Amy Carmichael
That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression. -- Wallace D. Wattles
The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become. -- Hudson Taylor
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish. -- Benjamin Franklin
Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness! -- Emily Carr
I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell. -- Christopher Pearse Cranch
Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence -- Isaac Asimov
In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. -- John Burroughs
Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit. -- George Eliot
The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client. -- Abraham Lincoln
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian. -- Walter Savage Landor
The success gene lives in every person regardless of the results they are presently getting - we are spiritual beings and spirit is always for expansion and fuller expression. -- Bob Proctor
To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction. -- Michael Pollan
One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. -- James Truslow Adams
The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves. -- Susan RoAne
We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary. -- Gary Ross
There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy. -- Wallace D. Wattles
Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God. -- Vicky Beeching
Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements. -- Swami Vivekananda
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences. -- Henry David Thoreau
Style icons feel like they have to be so thin, and when I see somebody with a fuller figure like Scarlet Johansson, who is sexy and happy, I find it such a relief. -- Jade Jagger
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee : I give Thee back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be. -- George Matheson

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