Versions Quotes - Page 9

• When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Real, Ideas, Trying

  "Self-avoiding Walks, the Language of Science, and Fibonacci Numbers". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Volume 54, Issue 1, September 1996.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.

  Philip Auslander

  Art, Men, Age

  7 Copy quote

• Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Book, Two, Medicine

  4 Copy quote

• But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of Outer Mongolia, I knew my name was written there too. Fly fishing was going to be my version of my father's sport, my nod to my Scottish ancestors and to my self, and to the fish crazed part of America I had claimed as my own.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Sports, Prayer, Father

  4 Copy quote

• Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist

  4 Copy quote

• My favourite song is Someone To Love. That is more like me than the other stuff, as it was the only one I was actually able to create from the bottom up. I call it an homage, not a remake. It is an homage to Freddie Mercury, because I don't think people can really remake Freddie Mercury. That's why we did a gospel version.

  Brittany Murphy

  Song, Thinking, People

  "Happy Feet - Brittany Murphy interview". IndieLondon interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

  Dario Argento

  Film, Knows, Originals

  4 Copy quote

• The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

  Georg Brandes

  Glee, Danish, Cheerfulness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

  Billy Crystal

  Thinking, Comedy, Jazz

  9 Copy quote

• The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors' first language was gestural and that the vocal version of language was a relatively recent development. My own guess is that vocal language began emerging about 200,000 years ago.

  Roger Fouts

  Cousin, Powerful, Years

  21 Copy quote

• What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh."

  Isaac Newton

  Latin, Years, Greek

  13 Copy quote

• If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that the second has more of a miraculous element, we may reasonably conclude we have legendary (or midrashic or whatever) embellishment. The tale has grown in the telling. This sort of comparison is common in extrabiblical research and no one holds that it cannot properly indicate legend formation there.

  Robert M. Price

  Two, Religion, Atheism

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.117, Wildside Press LLC

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Father, Italian

  7 Copy quote

• Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out. It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory and then that will be similar to what other people like about it.

  Akiva Goldsman

  Wall, Memories, Book

  Source: collider.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Different, Stories, Casting

  "Director Cary Fukunaga Talks TRUE DETECTIVE, Making an 8-Hour Film, Future Seasons, BEASTS OF NO NATION, Modernizing Horror with IT, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, collaborating is a marriage of the minds. It's two or more people coming together and making an idea come alive. Using their own creative knowledge or creative spirit to make the best version of an idea. To inspire an idea and to challenge it to be better than just one person's vision for it.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Ideas, Two, People

  "BWW Exclusive: InDepth InterView: Scarlett Johansson". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. January 25, 2010.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

  Mindy Kaling

  Smart, Sneakers, Guy

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself.

  Tony Gaskins

  Successful, Men, Wife

  Source: kish-magazine.com

  172 Copy quote

  Show source

• Develop strength and control at an early age and embrace love coupled with a selfless heart. Only then, will you find true peace in your heart and begin the journey to the best version of yourself and the best days of your life.

  Tony Gaskins

  Heart, Journey, Age

  Source: kish-magazine.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• For our family, the entire structure of our life, our home, our business relationships - the entire purpose is for everyone to be able to create in a way that makes them happy. Fame is almost an inconsequential by-product of what we're really trying to accomplish. We are trying to put great things into the world, we're trying to have fun, and we're trying to become the greatest versions of ourselves in the process of doing things we love.

  Will Smith

  Fun, Home, Trying

  "Mr. and Mr. Smith: Will and Jaden Psych Up for After Earth". Interview With Claire Hoffman, www.vulture.com. May 26, 2013.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but do I really know how to go brand a cow, or do I really know how to go rappelling down a cliff? No. I do the recreational, half-assed version of all these manly activities and then try to keep that kind of Zen masculinity, like, "I'm a man of nature."

  David Gordon Green

  Men, Texas, Trying

  Source: www.vulture.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

  Kevin Spacey

  Wings, People, Democracy

  4 Copy quote

• The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Biblical, Discovery

  7 Copy quote

• It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Anvils, Tablets, Ministry

  7 Copy quote

• Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.

  Annie Dillard

  Hands, Painting, Chapters

  Annie Dillard (2009). “The Writing Life”, p.5, Harper Collins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source