It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers… — Constance Wu Copy Share Image
Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
“When you are able to overcome distractions, then you will be able to do something more specific, something more precise and definite… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Becaise I love God, I want to handle his truth with accuracy, clarity, and specificity. I want to build bridges of understanding… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism",… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can… — Martinus Beijerinck Copy Share Image
Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
The more money you spend, the more you need to make back, and the more pressure there is to appeal to everyone… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words --… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
We have to be careful that we don't keep multiplying disorders and diluting them. I think there is a difference. People talk… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I think references, where they fit organically, are great. It's great to do a show that's real and relatable, and so much… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirmed, then nucleic acids must be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language… — James Avery Copy Share Image
I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you… — Tabitha Soren Copy Share Image
I mean, on virtually every major issue before this country that is the natural purview of the federal government, it's important to… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Education has a social specificity of its own that centres on the conditions for the acquisition of knowledge that can never be… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Everything we do on 'Luck' is absolutely no different than if we'd had been doing it in a feature film. There's no… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
Important element is deeply understanding our curriculum. Most teachers know what they're going to cover this week or this term. Few of… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
