The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I'm very selective about my scripts and about how I am projected on the screen. — Karthi Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“it’s pretty easy to frame an argument convincingly by being selective in the data presented.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
Admission to the National Academy is highly competitive and selective. — William Barr Copy Share Image
I have never clamored for an award and have quietly done my work over the years and have been as selective as… — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career, fresh out of college, I did everything that I could do. And now I'm a little… — Jenny Slate Copy Share Image
“In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly. — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it.… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers,… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
Military force is irrelevant to many of the most urgent threats we face. If we are to solve our myriad domestic problems… — William Hartung Copy Share Image
I've always been really selective. I just didn't have the right to be as selective in other years, I guess. It's very… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
For me, this is one of the advantages of not using digital, I never know when I have a good photograph! I… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke . — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going… — Roy Romer Copy Share Image
I've always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven't been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now… — Regina King Copy Share Image
He and she become selective at different points; she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy - sex; he can… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could,… — Jason Lee Copy Share Image
The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and… — John Drane Copy Share Image
The thing about film is that your eye is selective. Film isn't. You have to make film do what you want. Simply… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
My daughter hasn't seen me with anybody in five years. I'm very, very selective when it comes to that because I want… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
