As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the...… — Marie Clay Copy Share Image
I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in… — Rumi Copy Share Image
It feels like a rash. It suddenly seems like I've got a contagion of diseases, I mean awards. But it's nice, it's… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd… — Ronald Gross Copy Share Image
Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
Women tend to recall the details of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their left hemisphere to do the processing. Men… — John Medina Copy Share Image
This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an… — William James Copy Share Image
“I think the reason why I don't read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The brain processes meaning before detail. Providing the gist, the core concept, first was like giving a thirsty person a tall glass… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We… — Matt Corby Copy Share Image
I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There are some people who love being a something, but I also got the gist in the 60's when I grew up… — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said - that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I can't remember who told me but I was advised early on not to Google myself or read things about myself... I… — Leona Lewis Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
The American government has been harvesting the Middle Eastern grapes of wrath for a generation and not making a secret of it,… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
I went to a place recently I think is one of the most f**ked up places I've ever been to. I'm convinced… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
I've noticed the Fair Folk often say 'perhaps' when there is a truth they want to hide," Clary said. "It keeps you… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful,… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
