“To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“This is a phenomenon we have observed over recent weeks in particular, and it is growing. There have been some delays (of food shipments) and it is felt by the people.”
Eric Falt
“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.”
Dan Millman
“America's state religion, [is] patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.”
William Blum
“The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.”
Douglas Hofstadter
“The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency-half tiger, half poet.”
Yehudi Menuhin
“Just look at the Paris Hilton phenomenon and the way every other teenager looks like a prostitute.”
Tom Ford
