The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“It is characteristic of genius to be aware of the limitations of its own findings” — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“At his most characteristic, medieval man was not a dreamer nor a wanderer. He was an organiser, a codifier, a builder of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful.” — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“It is a peculiar characteristic of people that for some inexplicable reason they feel nice about themselves when they cite their acquaintance… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.” — Harry G. Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. I think that's sort of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister, or friends at my home. I… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“breaks from the ordered configurations of everyday life...'anti-structures.' The chief characteristic of the anti-structure...is...'communitas' - a spontaneous, rich, classless, nonhierarchical association of… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
“DOES,” that expresses its facets nicely. D is for depth of processing. Our fundamental characteristic is that we observe and reflect before… — Elaine N. Aron Copy Share Image
The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“...and it is characteristic of the young to become bound to an older and wiser man not only by the spell of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The Sutra That Unravels the Intention states: Here, the Buddha teaches the five characteristics of the ultimate. The five characteristics of the… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors. — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
“For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works,” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
