Either Quotes

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.

People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.

I've worked a lot during the night. But I don't sleep in the day either.

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.