Series Quotes - Page 21

DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

Ambrose Bierce

Intelligent, Numbers, Justice

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.41, 谷月社

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Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.

Katharine Weber

Loss, Sometimes, Ends

Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.118, Crown

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This celebration of The Bible will inspire people around the world to rediscover a beloved text in new ways. This is a passion project nurtured with love and care by Mark Burnett, Roma Downey and the entire creative team. I was thoroughly impressed by the deep faith expressed throughout this epic series.

Craig Detweiler

Team, Passion, Epic

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Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You do not write copy, you assemble it. You are working with a series of building blocks, you are putting the building blocks together, and then you are putting them in certain structures, you are building a little city of desire for your person to come and live in.

Eugene Schwartz

Block, Writing, Cities

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"Transparent" is a drama slash comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories - it's that good.

David Bianculli

Drama, Years, Next Year

"In 'Transparent,' A 70-Year-Old Divorced Dad Comes Out As A Woman". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. September 26, 2014.

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You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it.

Nick Johnson

Stars, Winning, Games

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Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather truth spelled with a capital 'T.' Truth about total reality, not just about religious things.

Biblical Christianity is Truth concerning total reality - and the intellectual holding of that total Truth and then living in the light of that Truth.

Francis Schaeffer

Religious, Biblical, Reality

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Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.

Babe Ruth

Baseball, Mean, Roots

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Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?

Christopher Meloni

New York, Uprising, Two

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Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

Gerald Scarfe

Drawing, Movement, Kind

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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

John Spratt

Moving, High Heels, Years

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The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between
internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was
there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.

Rebecca Solnit

Thinking, Journey, Hiking

Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.11, Penguin

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The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.

Michel de Certeau

Art, Journey, Hiking

Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.

Donald E. Westlake

Character, Choices, Conscious

The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 6, 2001.

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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

Oliver Lodge

Fashion, Survival, Sitting

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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

J. Lee Thompson

Movie, Political, Apes

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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

Kevin Spacey

Movie, Dark, Years

"New Again: Kevin Spacey". Interview with Mare Winningham, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2016.

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So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

Fay Wray

Time, Care, Littles

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I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

Fay Wray

Work, Thinking, Purpose

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My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.

Madeleine Stowe

Home, Race, Long

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In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.

Carl Sandburg

Moon, Night, Vegetables

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he is distressed to find that the more means he can dispose of-such as machine-power, rapid transport, and general civilized amenities, the more his problems grow in hardness and complexity....Perhaps the first thing he can learn form the artists is that the only way of 'mastering' one's material is to abandon the whole conception of mastery and to co-operate with it in love: whosoever will be a lord of life, let him be its servant.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Love, Mean, Men

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Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Heart, Talking, Forgotten

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

Joseph Goebbels

War, Normal, Problem

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Body is the name of a series of changes.

Swami Vivekananda

Names, Body, Human Body

Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.19, Advaita Ashrama

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