Introduction Quotes · Page 7

I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

“A story that began with, and exists because of, my love of the remoter parts of Scotland, where the bones of the…

— Neil Gaiman

“The average introduction to almost any book is somewhat of a bore”

— Boris Karloff

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to…

— Margaret Halsey

Since 1934 every accomplished player in golf has come to the Augusta National looking for an introduction into history.

— Jim Nantz

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we…

— Marvin Harris

Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms…

— Cilla Black

Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that…

— Edsger Dijkstra

to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train,…

— Santha Rama Rau

There used to be very few women in prisons, but this changed with the introduction of the hudood laws.

— Asma Jahangir

[ 1600 Penn] is an ensemble comedy about a family. It just happens to utilize the fact that my character is now…

— Josh Gad

I often wonder, when I hear some important speaker rattle off the rote land acknowledgements that have become the standard introduction for…

— Neil Macdonald

I knew that I could never win a referendum in Germany. We would have lost a referendum on the introduction of the…

— Helmut Kohl

Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked…

— Leo Tolstoy

We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

— Frederick Lenz

I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction…

— Alan Parsons

I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of…

— Terry Eagleton

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of…

— Richard Whately

My introduction to sports was through baseball. That's all I knew.

— Jessica Mendoza

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

— Anonymous

I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

— William James

Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

— Frederick Lenz

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make…

— Laurie Colwin

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson