Features Quotes - Page 13

• I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now Ive decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Reading, Character, Fiction

  6 Copy quote

• The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Men, Squares

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

  Bill Plympton

  Facts, Film, More Money

  4 Copy quote

• For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

  Werner Herzog

  Documentaries, Fantasy, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say either Einstein or Newton or something like that because their claims were supposed to apply universally. But the claim of somebody who is studying a particular feature of the evolutionary process like whether it's very fast or very slow, or occurs in steps and so on, that's not a universal claim, that's a rather specialised claim and so you can't claim to great fame and great success.

  Richard Lewontin

  Steps, Study, Newton

  Source: www.abc.net.au

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story.

  John Boyne

  Running, Growing Up, Children

  "John Boyne hates celebrity children's books". Interview with Kelly Gallucci, www.usatoday.com. April 11, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would be the kind of stories you would write in an adult novel only they just happen to feature a child at the center of them.

  John Boyne

  Children, Book, Writing

  10 Copy quote

• We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

  Ken Robinson

  Mean, Mind, World

  "TED and Reddit asked Sir Ken Robinson anything — and he answered". blog.ted.com. August 12, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Ghost Stories, Nasty, Protagonists

  4 Copy quote

• This enthusiasm [for empathy] may be misplaced. Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded and innumerate. We’re often at our best when we’re smart enough not to rely on it.

  Paul Bloom

  Smart, Empathy, Enthusiasm

  7 Copy quote

• Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Iraq, Saws, Conflict

  9 Copy quote

• Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

  Thomas Pogge

  Desire, Ought, Institute

  "Thomas Pogge and global fairness". "The Philosopher's Zone" with Alan Saunders, www.abc.net.au. March 18, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Errors, Progressive, Used

  "Progressive Disclosure". www.nngroup.com. December 4, 2006.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds, insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.

  Magdalena Abakanowicz

  Hands, Law, People

  11 Copy quote

• A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.

  Russell Baker

  One Day, Dimes, Bars

  4 Copy quote

• Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.

  Yuri Lotman

  Art, Expression, Poetry

  8 Copy quote

• My first 'SNL' episode was with Michael Phelps and Lil Wayne. And if you go back and watch the monologue - it was supposed to feature Barack Obama, but we couldn't get him - it was with William Shatner. But if you watch it, Guy Fieri is sitting in the front row.

  Bobby Moynihan

  Guy, Firsts, Watches

  4 Copy quote

• Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Expression, Delight, Spirituality

  28 Copy quote

• This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Work, Pride, Mind

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lord, I fashion dark gods, too,
  Daring even to give You
  Dark despairing features

  Countee Cullen

  God, Fashion, Dark

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.66, Library of America

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The almost Oriental politeness of the West Coast is one of its distinctive regional features, in marked contrast to the contentiousness of the East Coast.... So few human contacts in Los Angeles go unmediated by glass (either a TV screen or an automobile windshield), that the direct confrontation renders the participants docile, stunned, sweet.

  Edmund White

  Sweet, Glasses, West

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.1, University of Wisconsin Pres

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other units, "universal", while such correspondence is, probably, the most fundamental general feature of life on Earth.

  Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

  Science, Twenties, Fundamentals

  10 Copy quote

• The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, War, Men

  35 Copy quote

• The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.

  Julia Marlowe

  Art, Strong, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

  Rob Zombie

  New Experiences, Matter, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source