“People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. — Barrett Wendell Copy Share Image
Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow, — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The revision of any kind of established model is always a political act. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he… — Laurent Fabius Copy Share Image
The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
For products with revision possibilities, there is no better source available than a company going out of business! — E. Joseph Cossman Copy Share Image
The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening… — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is… — Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Copy Share Image
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. It differs, however, from most other branches of human… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Lie naked on the table, and let them cut. Criticism is surgery, and humility is the anesthetic that allows you to tolerate… — Molly Cochran Copy Share Image
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the outpouring of angry nonsense to which it… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“How, then, to proceed? My method is: I imagine a meter mounted in my forehead, with “P” on this side (“Positive”) and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Suddenly, I realized how tough trying to structure a story like this is. It was a lot of work. The one big… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat. — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I think in my mum's house, I still have my revision notes from my GCSE anthology book! — Jax Jones Copy Share Image
