There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
In acting, the basic tool is observation. Whenever you see something, you store it in your head, and when you come across… — Rishi Kapoor Copy Share Image
Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The point is that if the knowledge that provides the categories we use to describe our observations is defective, the observation statements… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
“The key to learning, to power, to having the final say in everything, is observation. By all means, be a storm inside,… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
I have argued that a religion or a philosophy cannot speak about facts of the world - if it does, it is… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive,… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Although my view is a world-wide one and my area of observation is Europe, the nation closest to my heart is, understandably,… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes… — James Pollard Espy Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
“The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“We shouldn't judge people. But there's a difference between judging and observing. And sometimes as we observe, our eyebrows become raised. Observation… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the conclusion that… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
I was so furious I was actually dizzy with it. There were so many bitchy, sarcastic observations to make, I was having… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
“There is no greater path than the act of listening, because the observer who listens can begin to see themselves as a… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
A man sees only what concerns him… How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from… — B C Forbes Copy Share Image
“Observation" If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer… — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
