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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