Technicalities Quotes

• Wrong must not win by technicalities.

  Aeschylus

  Winning

  Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

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• The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.

  Ted Nelson

  Vision, Matter, Unifying

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• But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.

  Laura Lippman

  Thinking, Facts, Lines

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• I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.

  Michael Caine

  Mother, Father, Catholic

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• ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

  Aeschylus

  Winning, Wish, Athena

  Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

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• A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

  Jim Butcher

  Behinds, Prepared

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.80, Penguin Group

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• The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

  Winston Churchill

  Character, Firsts, Duty

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man's flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of "doubt" at all regarding his guilt or innocence.

  Aberjhani

  Men, Blood, Law

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• On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Matter, Intonation

  Leopold Stokowski's statement recalled in obituaries (September 13, 1977), as quoted in "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" compiled by James B. Simpson, 1988.

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• Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

  Stanley Morison

  Typography, Civilized, Minors

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• We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

  Dan Quayle

  Smart, Law, May

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• Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

  John Ruskin

  Peculiar, Noble, Painting

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.242

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• The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature and purpose as a deliberate human activity. Doubtless this is due to the inevitable drawback that mathematical study is saturated with technicalities from beginning to end.

  Herbert Turnbull

  Science, Experts, Purpose

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• TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Taken, Home, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2526, Delphi Classics

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• Have your life properly aligned with dharma. The technicalities of the movement of the kundalini are easy to master. Dharma is much more complex.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Movement, Easy

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• When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to "get their man." Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome "technicalities" that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties.

  Donna Woolfolk Cross

  Integrity, Men, Law

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• I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well how to play it, apart from little technicalities like the accent.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Play, Actors

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• I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

  Bob Hope

  Hate, Inspiration, Funny Friend

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• I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mother, Oedipus, Courses

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.47, Penguin

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• Obviously, from the experience you get from making videos, you understand where the camera is and how some of the actual technicalities work and so on and so forth.

  Shirley Manson

  Cameras, Video

  "Shirley Manson Steps Into Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles". Conference call, movieweb.com. September 10, 2008.

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• PhotoShop is a program I use all the time with my 2D stuff. And that's an extraordinary program - you really can do anything there, and I've never hit my head on the ceiling. The 3D stuff is incredibly complicated, monstrously complicated, but for the things that I want to do, I've found very simple and interesting ways, I hope, of making images without getting tied up too much in the maps and technicalities.

  Dave McKean

  Simple, Interesting, Ceilings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My favorite films are when all of the technicalities are so seamless and so well done that I'm not thinking about them - you're able to go full-on into the story versus talking about edgy this moment was.

  Condola Rashad

  Thinking, Talking, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn't appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing.

  John Flanagan

  Way, Ignored, Lifetime

  John Flanagan (2011). “The Lost Stories (Ranger's Apprentice Book 11)”, p.63, Random House

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• These are the technicalities. The jetes and pirouettes.. but the music of the dance lies in the subtle signals between the steps: the fish's delivery of them, the fisherman's read of and response to them, which, if she's good, must be near telepathic. That's what takes a death-grip on your concentration. That's why your mind empties of all trivia, which, when playing a fish, includes just about everything else you could possible think of. That is what anglers live for.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Lying, Thinking, Lakes

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• I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities.

  Kevin Costner

  Sports, Cutting, Thinking

  "Kevin Costner Talks DRAFT DAY, His Career, What We Can Learn from the Movies, How GIANT Influenced His Outlook on Life, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 7, 2014.

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