I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from…

The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often…

— Larry Charles

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider…

— Richard Cecil

First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional…

— Nicolas Cage

The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that…

— George Grenville

“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,…

— Carl Sagan

As for the (Ballon d'Or) criteria, I'm not really sure how it works. Sometimes it's a World Cup year, sometimes it isn't. Let them…

— David Villa

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum…

— Michael Behe

“We need to give an informative set of criteria for the best explanation. It is very difficult to do so. Here are some factors…

— Michael E Emmering

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the…

— Breyten Breytenbach

My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a…

— Rita Dove

A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but…

— Karl Popper

A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater…

— Gerhard Richter

The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have…

— Bashar al-Assad

The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a…

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached…

— Michael Eric Dyson