Overlapping Quotes - Page 2

• Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

  Annie Dillard

  Time, Children, Ascending

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.77, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections of overlapping, ceaselessly reinvented mechanism, a group of competing factions. The conscious mind fabricates stories to explain the sometimes inexplicable dynamics of the subsystem inside brain. It can be disquieting to consider the extent to which all of our actions are driven by hardwired systems doing what they do best while we overlay stories about choices.

  David Eagleman

  Choices, Mind, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.157, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A famous violinist once said. Music transcends words. By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.

  KAORI

  Heart, Miracle, Soul

  10 Copy quote

• Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the other areas are overlapping and interacting as well, the emotional, intuitive, animal areas.

  Michael Longley

  Animal, Emotional, Brain

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm conscious of the fact that a lot of Ekoplekz material got released in quick succession. It was difficult for people to keep up. The thing is, once you hand over the material to the label you have no control over when something comes out - at one point I had whole LPs that were overlapping.

  Ekoplekz

  Hands, People, Labels

  Source: thequietus.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"

  Rich Hall

  Doors, Hands, Keys

  9 Copy quote

• Sometimes I use words to throw you from once scene to the other, and sometimes I use words to pull you from one scene to the other. You might not be aware of it, but I may have overlapping words one way or the other. So, I'm actually using words.

  Fred Schepisi

  Use, May, Might

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Universe

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.81, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

  Sarah Dessen

  Keys, Breathing, Giving

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.268, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a theory behind the culture of victimhood: It's called "intersectionality." This theory posits that racism, sexism, classism, ableism, etc. are interconnected, overlapping, and mutually reinforcing. Together they form a "matrix of oppression."

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Racism, Together, Culture

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought, but often manipulated artificially by political practitioners so as to obscure, expand, or distort ... a certain broad consistency in its relations to other kindred terms is the nearest approach to definition which such a term as Imperialism admits. Nationalism, internationalism, colonialism, its three closest congeners, are equally elusive, equally shifty, and the changeful overlapping of all four demands the closest vigilance.

  J. Allan Hobson

  Political, Consistency, Definitions

  6 Copy quote

• [It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Two, Facts, Well Known

  "Social Networks: A Developing Paradigm" by Samuel Leinhardt, (p. 350), 1977.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what – and who – we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.

  Kofi Annan

  Hate, Teaching, People

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Feb 14, 2017

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.

  David Mitchell

  Keys, Order, Color

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.445, Random House

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. Seth heard the rocking horse clattering down the staircase, the twang of bowstrings, and the overlapping beat of several other projectiles thudding against the door. "That was awesome," Seth told Kendra. "You're psychotic," Kendra replied.

  Brandon Mull

  Horse, Wall, Doors

  6 Copy quote

• When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.

  Julian Barnes

  Strong, Memories, Confused

  8 Copy quote

• [The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to the image of a Biblical prophet (modified by the material of the Muhammadan evangelium into an Arabian man of God) with a traditional message of salvation (modified by the influence of Rabbinic Judaism into the unmediated and finally immutable word of God).

  John Wansbrough

  Biblical, Men, Islam

  8 Copy quote

• In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of the hierarchy which do not flow naturally from any sort of random undirected evolutionary process. If the hierarchy suggests any model of nature it is typology and not evolution. How much easier it would be to argue the case for evolution if all nature's divisions were blurred and indistinct, if the systema naturalae was largely made up of overlapping classes indicative of sequence and continuity.

  Michael Denton

  Class, Would Be, Finals

  13 Copy quote

• Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Running, Flames, Sensual

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.167, D. H. Lawrence

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism.

  Phil Cousineau

  Moving, Heart, Essence

  8 Copy quote

• The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

  Thomas Szasz

  Religion, Ingredients, Categories

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1978). “The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression”, p.25, Syracuse University Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

  Frederik Pohl

  Population, Fiction, Clear

  12 Copy quote

• Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time or space, can be described as a series of overlapping sine waves of multiple frequencies and various amplitudes.

  Bruce Hood

  Space, Simplicity, Patterns

  6 Copy quote

• Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships with churches…I have always seen Habitat for Humanity as a servant of the church and as a vehicle through which the church and its people can express their love, faith, and servanthood to people in need in a very tangible and concrete (literally!) way.

  Millard Fuller

  Circles, People, Creative

  Millard Fuller (1994). “The Theology of the Hammer”, p.53, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.

  Sheri Holman

  Dream, Book, Political

  7 Copy quote