I think something that I can't name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!" ( Letter to Alexander Chekhov , May 10, 1886)” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
France has a specificity - the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are… — Xavier Niel Copy Share Image
There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language… — James Avery Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words --… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
Not that I ever felt the necessity of proving that all human beings suffer the same way, feel joy the same way,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I mean, on virtually every major issue before this country that is the natural purview of the federal government, it's important to… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism",… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is… — Leslie Orgel Copy Share Image
This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything we do on 'Luck' is absolutely no different than if we'd had been doing it in a feature film. There's no… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Each crisis is different, has its own specificities, and we need to look at it critically; look at each one in its… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“When you are able to overcome distractions, then you will be able to do something more specific, something more precise and definite… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group.… — Ross Bleckner Copy Share Image
