Dots Quotes - Page 6

• Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you." Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

  Max Lucado

  Stars, Giving, Like You

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• This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within it the atom in question, is in charge of my writing, in a gigantic minuscule game which nobody has yet described. It is that which at this instant, issuing out of a labyrinthine tangle of yeses and nos, makes my hand run along a certain path on the paper, mark it with these volutes that are signs: a double snap, up and down, between two levels of energy, guides this hand of mine to impress on the paper this dot, here, this one.

  Primo Levi

  Running, Writing, Cells

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• I have one final hope, If I get double sixes, maybe he will change his mind, come back to me. As if to cast a magic spell, I blow on the dice just as Dex did...Just as it happened with our first roll, one die lands before its mate. On a six! I hold my breath. For a brief second, I see a mess of dots, and think I have boxcars again. I kneel, staring at the second die. It is onle a five. I have rolled an eleven, It is as if someone is mocking me, saying, Close, but no dice.

  Emily Giffin

  Blow, Thinking, Land

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• Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather.

  Patricia Briggs

  Feathers, Indian

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• Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

  Rose Macaulay

  Animal, Aunt, Climbing

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• All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Brother, Lying, Eye

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• Of course, we can not connect imprint future, you can just hook them to look back. So rest assured that the dots, the events in your life in one way or another will affect your future. You have to have faith in something - the courage, destiny, life, destiny or whatever - thinking that has made the difference in my life

  Steve Jobs

  Destiny, Thinking, Differences

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• Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary.

  Barry Lopez

  Mean, Diverse Society, Space

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy

  John Boyne

  Boys, Figures, Specks

  John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.107, Random House

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• I recently heard of someone studying the ellipsis (or three dots) for a PhD. And, I have to say, I was horrified. The ellipsis is the black hole of the punctuation universe, surely, into which no right-minded person would willingly be sucked, for three years, with no guarantee of a job at the end.

  Lynne Truss

  Jobs, Years, Black

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• Eyes watching always Shadows in shadows they wait A black feather falls First accepted, loved Then betrayed-spit in the face Vengeance sweet like dots.

  P. C. Cast

  Sweet, Fall, Eye

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.71, Macmillan

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• My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

  David Levithan

  Curves, Individuality, Lines

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.64, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.

  Lynne Truss

  Thinking, Intellectual, Degrees

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• I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

  Ben Casnocha

  Maps, Bigs, Smallest

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• ...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Stars, Future

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!

  Edmond Rostand

  Fashion, Flower, Taken

  Edmond Rostand (1899). “Cyrano de Bergerac”

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• Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.

  Ann Patchett

  Fate, Doors, Long

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• Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick in the paper: you could put your eye to it and see through, to the other side, to the beginning of something else. Or, as Tony says to her students, Time is not a solid, like wood, but a fluid, like water or the wind. It doesn't come neatly cut into even-sized length, into decades and centuries. Nevertheless, for our purposes we have to pretend it does. The end of any history is a lie in which we all agree to conspire.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Eye, Writing

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• If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Inspirational, Teenager, Gym Class

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• I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

  Anne Lamott

  Crazy, Thinking, Dice

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).

  Matthew Collings

  Successful, Color, White

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• The polishedness and the sophistication were what I was interested in. I mean, give me a polka dot, a floral print, a pleated dress, a big fur coat, that was always my language, and it wasn't very "in" when I was starting out, so I had a difficult time in the beginning.

  Jason Wu

  Mean, Giving, Dresses

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

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• A substitute shines brightly as a king
  Until a king be by, and then his state
  Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
  Into the main of waters.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Water, Shining

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 90

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• I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Hard Work, Thinking, Ideas

  "VC&G Interview: Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari". Interview with Benj Edwards, www.vintagecomputing.com. March 30, 2007.

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• From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.

  Adam Rogers

  Jobs, Style, Folks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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