Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy. — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA! — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
We expect to make about 500,000-600,000 more. Our initial goal was one million, but in reality we will probably make a bit… — Eric Friedman Copy Share Image
A teacher will have an initial contact at some point with someone. It happens inwardly first. Before you ever meet an advanced… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new… — Mick McCarthy Copy Share Image
And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting. So, whatever initial… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
There's always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel. Immediately,… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance, adjusted by changes in labor and capital… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of my downtime studying different businesses and learning from a lot of entrepreneurs when I'm not playing football.… — Kamerion Wimbley Copy Share Image
The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“All my books are under J.Z. Murdock (with periods after the initials). Sorry for the confusion. :)” — J Z Murdock Copy Share Image
There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at… — Robert Morley Copy Share Image
At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?” — Lily King Copy Share Image
As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort. — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
“and P.L.O. Guy (whose initials were okay for then but mean something entirely different now).” — Eric H Cline Copy Share Image
In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state. — Chairil Anwar Copy Share Image