Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Asher

It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'

Sorin Cerin

The societies of the futures, always searching for salves, will be so greedy to have this capital which is the man, that they will find all sorts of dirty ways to religiously or culturally brutify him and even severely punishing him if he would chose suicide or the ideology that shows the true path of salvation of the mankind through itself. Precisely because they will understand that the Man is the World and the World is the Man! This aphorism will be the one that will be in the foreground on the backgrounds tainted by all these murders of the money of this society which will be the antechamber of the society of the Sacred Self.

F. H. Bradley

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

Mason Cooley

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

Mason Cooley

Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.

Mason Cooley

The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.

Mason Cooley

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

George Douglas

It's the danger of the aphorism that it states too much in trying to be small

Emile M. Cioran

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

Gad Elmaleh

My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.

Nina Garcia

I think my Latino culture has equipped me with a different point of view than the rest of my counterparts, and seeing things from a different angle has helped me a lot. I feel very proud of my culture, of my Latino heritage.

Ryan Coogler

What's important to me is offering perspectives into worlds that people don't often get to see. Do you know what I mean? From angles they don't often get to see.

Lucy Lawless

We were shooting video, and they are using footage that I and my crew actually shot. It was really exciting, worrying about the camera angle you are getting, and you were truly being your character and fully concerned about shooting the footage. It was like shooting a movie within a movie.

Dan Gonzalez

Tyler is an awesome player and the other guys really compliment what he does. It seemed like any time we made a little run it was different players coming up with big shots. They just kept coming at us from a lot of different angles and did a good job getting us back on our heels.

Adolph Green

We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.

Raylene Ireland

We're really working every angle of this issue. The most important issue for us is getting the residents' homes cleaned and getting their homes restored.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

Mark Prior

It felt a little awkward. But it was good to get up there and to start working to try to get down there on a nice angle and see a guy with a catcher's mitt and get after it.

Laura Puchowicz

We wanted to make the motel better, but renovating the old structure would just have been a humongous problem.

Dave Foley

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Carl Jung

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

Demetri Martin

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Jerry Green

We still have old time play time at recess, but we have structured play as well.

A. R. Ammons

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Kathleen Blanco

If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence,

John Hewson

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

Kris Jenkins

They've let me know I have a support structure here and anything I need to get I can get.