I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist.… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The lingo used in the space is so arcane and out of date that investors have no context for the discussions. The… — Bob Rice Copy Share Image
Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution. — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When I was in my 20s, I think there was a lot of really arcane male behaviour that wasn't even questioned. — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I don't think I would worry about an oversaturation of information if it was indeed information. It is the slovenly, hasty traffic… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
What has emerged as I've gotten older is simplifying the characters I play, unless the role calls for something that is arcane… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality;… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“It's not enough to give people what they need to survive, you have to give them what they need to live.- Ekko.” — Ekko from Arcane Copy Share Image
It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering,… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
(with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is,… — Russell Chatham Copy Share Image
Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
